Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Noble lords grew apoplectic. Bishops harrumphed. Even venerable flunkeys quailed. Seldom, if ever, in the 121 years of its existence, had the learned members of London's venerable club, the Athenaeum, received so rude a shock...
Eventually Sergeant Hensel will be far from helpless. After operations on all four stumps, he will get artificial limbs and be able to walk again. Last week, still suffering from shock and slightly deaf from concussion, he was thinking of starting a little chicken farm when he is discharged. He told reporters: "This sure changes things a lot . . .I'd make an excellent propaganda photo to end all wars." His dark-haired wife, at the hospital to greet him, said: "We'll get along fine...
Wounded in the thigh, Red Army Private Valentin Cherepanov lost so much blood that he died. The attending surgeon certified: "Death following shock and acute hemorrhage...
...Britain's well-informed medical journal, the Lancet, brooded over the question but found no specific answer. Among the Lancet's guesses: 1) an "unexpectedly high level of mental stability" among the masses; 2) a wartime contraceptive shortage; 3) an insecure world turning to children as a "shock absorber...
...Caplan gave shock treatments on an average of once a week to 15 patients who had continued to have more than two major fits a month after full doses of anticonvulsant drugs. Results: 1) eleven patients had fewer fits; one had only one in two months; 2) each patient in shock duplicated his natural fit, going through his own peculiar pattern of motion; 3) recovery from electric shock was quicker than from natural seizures, which often incapacitate a man for the day; 4) the remaining natural fits were less severe than before...