Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, who sat stony-faced, trying to maintain the comfortably superior attitude of an officer and a gentleman. His was the first sobering shock: the prosecution's account (compiled from German Navy archives) of his pre-Hitler (1932) efforts to rebuild the German Navy in defiance of Versailles. The record read: German submarines had been constructed in Spain and Finland; crews had been trained in The Netherlands...
Director Billy Wilder's technique of photographing Third Avenue in the grey morning sunlight with a concealed camera to keep the crowds from being self-conscious gives this sequence the shock of reality. Other attempts at authenticity of detail are equally rewarding. The apartment Don lives in-not too flossy and not too shabby-looks exactly as the interior of a remodeled Manhattan brownstone should look. Don's girl friend (Jane Wy-man), who also plays the role of a TIME researcher, seems qualified for the job: she is bright, courteous, indefatigable and impervious to rebuffs...
...Matter of Sardines. For everybody, money is one of the worst problems. You have to carry bales of currency; even little boys and beggars carry wads of bank notes in their hands. The papers tell of an elderly gentleman who died of shock after leaving $40 million in a pedicab. I sympathized until I figured out that it was about 133 U.S. dollars...
With some planes, the shock wave may form at speeds as low as 550 m.p.h. Captain Wilson's Meteor was probably designed specially to push the danger limit upward. Even so, he did not dare use the full power of his jets...
Owner Arden, whose Maine Chance Farm horses have made hundreds of thousands of bettors happy, was flabbergasted. "This has been a severe shock to me," she said. "I love my horses. They're so beautiful. They were my toys. And now this calamity after such wonderful success. . ." Said Trainer Smith, admitting that he had long used a mixture of salt, vinegar and ephedrine (to clear up horses' heads): "The quantity and quality of ... the so-called drug ... is infinitesimal and could not have affected [the horse's] racing condition...