Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was not what they brooded over. One of them said curtly: "We don't need to be reoriented to the Army. A lot of us are damn glad to be going back overseas. What they should have prepared us for was the shock of coming home...
...canceled at one swoop, Grumman will have no choice but to "shut the doors" until he can find a market. But this contingency is remote. Grumman, with no cutbacks in the offing, this week goes back on a six-day week because of slightly increased schedules. And the shock of the end of the European war may be cushioned. The Navy may shift the bulk of plane contracts back to the old-line planemakers so that the automakers, et al., can get back to peacetime products...
...night William, remembering Marguerite, wrote a letter asking her to come to New Zealand and marry him. It was quite a shock to him when Marianne arrived instead, carrying a reticule and a parrot. As usual, William had got the sisters' names twisted. But he was too much of a gentleman...
...morning to replace lost rations and then go to the Town Hall to get her glasses replaced. But two hours later the local warden came to the factory looking for me to say Kit's in a house up the road all collapsed again. Sort of delayed shock, I suppose you might call it. So I packed Andrew up and took them both down to Puddleston...
Despite the shock to many a High Churchman, London's Church Times took a relatively calm view. "The question," it observed, "whether women are capable of receiving holy orders presents a complicated theological problem to which no easy answer can be given. Without doubt the matter will be brought up for consideration at the next Lambeth Conference, and equally without doubt the Conference will declare that this act was eminently well-pleasing to God and must never be repeated...