Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amram Scheinfeld spent five years studying and assembling what modern scientists have discovered about sex. Some of their findings upset established notions: e.g., that women are more likely to be hysterical than men; during the bombing of London there were 70% more shock cases among civilian men than women. Another myth: that primitive women bear children as easily as animals do; actually they take as long to recuperate as civilized mothers...
This week Wendell Willkie died. The news came as an actual shock; if there had been a seismograph to measure such things, it would have recorded that the shock was felt by human beings clear around the world. All over the U.S. the people said the same things to each other: simple words of half-angry disbelief, of loss, of sorrow. That was a man, said the people...
...uncountable; no stadium could have held it; the estimates ranged as high as 500,000 and none less than 200,000.* To that crowd Wendell Willkie made a great, an eloquent-and an unpolitical-speech. It was poorly delivered; his word-slurring, Hoosier-twang delivery was a shock to citizens used to the sophisticated fluency of Mr. Roosevelt's radio voice. But that speech was the expression of a good American's will to freedom-the keystone of his character, and the root of his antipathy to the New Deal...
High Gear for Ford. Next day the newsmen traveled to Willow Run, sat down with Ford executives for lunch. There they got a shock. Ray Rausch, the plump, candid production boss of the Rouge plant, calmly predicted that the Ford company would turn out its first cars two months after...
Died. Helen Hay Whitney, 68, daughter of Secretary of State John Hay, widow of Multimillionaire Payne Whitney, "First Lady of the Turf"; of shock following news of her son Jock's Nazi capture and escape; in Manhattan. Top inheritor of a $200,000,000 will, the largest ever accepted for probate in the U.S., poetry-writing Mrs. Payne Whitney was terrified by her one & only subway ride, lived quietly amid her magnificent Long Island gardens. First woman life-member of the Thoroughbred Club of America, Mrs. Whitney managed her famed Greentree Stable, won the Kentucky Derby with Twenty Grand...