Word: shockingly
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...quake relief. Not only did they believe their seismologists could predict the next Big One, but their leaders also gave the impression they would be ready for it when it came. But when the ground shook under Kobe on Jan. 17, 1995, that faith suffered its own Richter shock, and Japanese confidence in their ability to outsmart nature lay in ruins ... By night people huddled in high schools or town halls, in stairwells or around bonfires. By day they drifted back to the wreckage of their lives. Kazumichi Kawabata, 45 and grieving, searched brokenly through the remains of his house...
...other time too. Beside the sorrow of our frail humanity there is also the glory of our genius. Amid the shock and grief at our common helplessness before a cruel ocean, there is also this: when Huygens sent back those wondrous pictures from the surface of Titan this past Friday, we were reminded once again of our stubborn little common human greatness...
...about an orphan," says Paul Deveril, a UNICEF project officer in India, "there's also a story about a parent searching for their child." Then, too, child-welfare experts strive to place orphans in new homes within their extended families and communities. "The children have been through a massive shock," says Christiane Sebenne of Enfance et Familles d'Adoption, a French agency. "We shouldn't make life even harder by uprooting them...
...another instance, Tripp uncovers an excerpt from the diary of Virginia Woodbury Fox, a Washington socialite during Lincoln's day. Writing of rumors that Lincoln and Derickson slumbered together in the White House, Fox exclaims, "What Stuff!" To Tripp, the comment denotes shock at Lincoln's behavior, but it could just as easily be construed as disgust at hearsay...
...friends of Malinovskaya, the accused murderer, were in “complete shock,” according to a male friend who would not give his name...