Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shock of Reality. The U.S. was shocked. It should not have been. Power politics still dominated Europe, and the past masters of power politics were the masters of the Kremlin. Ever since Winston Churchill's last visit to Russia (TIME, Oct. 16 et seq.), there had been little doubt that, for a free hand in the Mediterranean, he had been forced to grant Russia a free hand in Poland and the upper Balkans...
...Jason Widmer after a very beautiful ceremony in Appleton Chapel, new wearing the gold band, herald of the fast dwindling group of free men about. We thought that Jason was safe, but it was the biggest shock since Bob Berra took the great step with little warning...
Injected into a man's veins, purified dextran has plasma's ability to combat shock by maintaining the volume of blood in the veins. The dextran molecules are too large to leak out readily through capillary walls, and at the same time they attract water, hold it in the blood...
...turrets big enough to accommodate both guns and gunner; the job of aiming by hand in a rushing slipstream is taken over by powerful machinery ; the gunner can be warm and comfortable at his work inside the B-29's cabin, insulated from the shock and noise of his rattling armament...
Last fortnight General Electric announced the newest-silicone rubber (of which bouncing putty is one form). Because of its great resistance to heat, silicone rubber is better than natural rubber for many purposes. The Army is using it for gaskets on turbosuperchargers, the Navy for shock absorbers for the glass lenses in searchlights-both uses for which no previous material had filled the bill...