Word: shockingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Womanhandled. In Seattle, Longshore man Roy C. Pruett filed suit for $10,000, claimed he "suffered severe nervous shock . . . was battered, hurled, jerked and bruised" when he was thrown from a bus by Woman Driver Dorothy Castagno...
...when Minister Lyttelton returned to his spacious, robin's-egg-blue office on the third floor of the Ministry of Production, he found his assistants milling around in consternation. The interpolated words, cabled to the U.S., had practically exploded in Washington. The shock was all the greater because numerous British experts in both the U.S. and Britain had slaved to gather material to make the speech a convincing show of U.S.-British good will, with accent on reverse Lend-Lease. Several versions of the speech were cabled back and forth, checked down to the last word. Minister Lyttelton promptly...
Bullets and airplanes are similarly impeded. When they hit air at high speed, the air bunches up in front of them like the hill of water against a ship's bow. The compression creates "shock waves"-turbulent air formations whose impact enormously increases air drag. A bullet can be driven through these waves by explosive power, but no one has yet designed an airplane engine and propeller combination powerful enough to overcome them...
...Shock waves become an aviation problem long before the plane itself reaches the speed of sound. Reason: local changes in air speed on the plane's surfaces. Air molecules, hastening to get out of a plane's way, speed up as they flow around the curved surfaces of the plane's wings and propeller. The wider the curve, the faster the air travels. This accelerated air, moving faster than the plane, may reach supersonic speeds and create local shock waves, known to airmen as "compressibility burble." Designers have reduced this hazard by giving wings and propellers thinner...
...Doubtless there are good things in both, as well as bad," he replied. "I think it is right that there should be new movements, suitable to new generations and periods. They shock and disturb those who are attached to the old institutions, but they are not meant for them. It is true, of course, that although they are intended to be 'for the people,' they end up by being for those who are running the State...