Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offer was not necessarily a failure. Its authors had not expected an instant success; it was a slow-burning fire. And it had been timed to precede the shock of the new atomic bomb, a weapon which would hit Japan and the Japanese as no land or people had ever before been hit (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Soon the survivors might be more receptive...
When the munitions ship Mont Blanc exploded in the harbor of Halifax, N.S. on Dec. 6, 1917, the shock was felt more than 150 miles away. The explosion killed more than 1,100, laid waste two square miles of the city. The Mont Blanc carried 3,000 tons of TNT. The single atomic bomb which fell on Hiroshima in Japan this week exploded with approximately seven times the force of that tremendous charge...
...term hour exam grades went into the Dean's Office yesterday and some people are due for a shock when they find that spring fever has crept into summer...
...most U.S. citizens, not deeply versed in British politics, the big shock was the news that Winston Churchill had been turned out by the people he had led through to victory (see FOREIGN NEWS). Americans had not been thoroughly apprised of the situation in Britain: that the people desperately wanted a change in government, that they had their eyes mainly on reconstruction...
...fact that the winning party was also a socialist party had its shock, too. Said Mayor J. A. Horger of Hondo, Tex. (pop. 2,500): "I was disappointed. I think they should have kept him in office. I don't favor this socialism and such." The New York Daily News, which has no love for socialists, interpreted it all as an unseemly British bender...