Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pact. To dream of a revolution is . . . to carry it out with double strength. . . . Surrealism is what will be." Observers discounted the big talk. Said one: "After the gas chambers, those heaps of bones and teeth and shoes and eyeglasses, what is there left for the poor Surrealists to shock us with...
Then came what to Farley was "the final shock." Roosevelt said: "By the way, Jim, the family is not going to the convention. Undoubtedly I will accept the nomination by radio and will arrange to talk to the delegates before they leave the convention hall after the nomination...
...meant to shock, and it did. Two days later, the Post reprinted part of its editorial over a long list of highway crashes, drownings and other holiday fatalities...
...tight lips are the very stuff of England today; if is difficult to visualise such a life existing in any other country. Accustomed to thinking of the British as always restrained, we tend to accept their present condition as natural and bearable. But it is, not, and the dull shock of tired nerves is beginning to spread, like battle fatigue after the excitement of combat wears off. The surface annoyances of life are so great, the bareness of the next few years so obvious, that one is amazed at the basic popularity of the government. It continues to be supported...
...Scott gets good & sore at his wife, he just can't give a hoot for moneymaking, and that neglect is represented as close to the ultimate catastrophe. But he recovers. Within a few hours after she has killed a man in her parlor, and is still suffering from shock, he leaves her, with her entire approval, for more important matters at The Office...