Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first shock of horror had been absorbed, but this week came news of a monstrosity that appeared to top all previous tales of Nazi inhumanity...
Everywhere, to almost everyone, the news came with the force of a personal shock. The realization was expressed in the messages of the eminent; it was expressed in the stammering and wordlessness of the humble. A woman in Detroit said: "It doesn't seem possible. It seems to me that he will be back on the radio tomorrow, reassuring us all that it was just a mistake...
...broke the news to the press was himself an able, veteran newsman-Steve Early. Taking over from Jonathan Daniels, his successor as White House press secretary, who was shaking and white-faced with shock, Early quickly set up a three-way call to the press associations to tell them simultaneously: "Here is a flash. The President died suddenly early this afternoon...
First contact with that world usually came as a sharp shock. Sometimes it bred effusive warmth, sometimes icy resentment. Many Germans at first looked on the Americans as liberators, then relapsed into timid docility. Some went on smiling, trying to be friendly, until finally they understood that the Americans were all but anesthetized against them...
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York wired Mrs. Roosevelt, "It is the greatest loss the peace-loving people of the world have suffered in the entire war. The shock is so great that it is extremely difficult for any one to realize fully what has happened. There is only one thing we can do to pay adequate tribute to this war casualty-unite in carrying out his ideals for world justice and permanent peace...