Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...original band who opened the redistribution center in October of 1943. We were "war-wearies" from all theaters and had had more than our fill of combat, but we were too happy to be home and alive to do any brooding. After the first shock of being treated like gentlemen we settled down to enjoy the marvelous facilities the army provided for our entertainment and enjoyment. We did not avoid civilians but it so happened we had little contact with them. The few that we did meet were more than pleasant and helpful. I am afraid that your reporter does...
Pennsylvania's level headed Representative Herman P. Eberharter best summed up the dying Congress' feeble handling of the problem. Said he: "These gentlemen fail to realize the magnitude of the shock that is going to occur in this country. . . . They are failing to look forward to the future with any vision. . . . They are failing to attack the problem now because it requires a little bit of courage...
...drawback is that the plan comes late. Even optimistic General Browning fears that it may prove a better cushion for industry against the shock of the end of the Japanese rather than the German...
...They treat "shell-shock" (a term "loosely applied to almost any neuropsychiatric condition") by coddling rather than discipline, thus teaching moral weaklings to foster their mental quirks...
Against Discipline. Dr. Bowman began his reply by stating that Dr. Link had expressed "more pointedly perhaps than any recent writer, the gross misconception in the public mind regarding psychiatry. ..." The Link discussion, according to Dr. Bowman, contained two plain errors: 1) except for the phrase " 'socalled shell-shock' . . . neither the American Army nor Navy uses the term, and never did"; 2) Dr. Link thinks the use of psychiatry in forward battle areas is novel when "even in the last war the whole basis of psychiatric treatment in the A.E.F. was exactly this." Continued Dr. Bowman...