Word: shocks
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Occasionally, though, The Victors explores man's inhumanity to man with candor-or perhaps it's just a heartfelt desire to shock. A twelve-year-old homosexual leaves the Germans and offers himself as a G.I. camp follower. A French lieutenant coolly obliterates every sign of life in an enemy pillbox that has already surrendered. Soldiers in transit sing out that old favorite Bless 'Em All, blurrily substituting that four-letter verb common to army camps but not to Hollywood movies...
...South Bend, on a cold grey day with gently descending snow, workers poured from the plant in shock and anger. In Hamilton, Ont., the news was greeted with elation, and men quickly lined up to apply for jobs. Across the U.S., 1,900 dealers sat in their showrooms and forlornly surveyed an uncertain future. In a move long expected but nonetheless shocking when it came, Studebaker Corp. announced that it was dropping auto production in the U.S.-111 years after its founding as a carriage maker and 61 since it turned out its first auto. The company insisted that...
This second defeat, one short of Harvard's total for the last five seasons, gives the Crimson a 1-2 record with a long vacation to recover from the shock. But the Jan. 11 meet at Dartmouth should be a little easier, so wait till next year...
...alcoholic beverages," was thus "an incompetent and unfit driver of golf carts." At last, after careening all over, the cart overturned. Bullets (150 Ibs.) fell on the ground; the Great One (290 Ibs.) and the golf cart (500 Ibs.) fell on Bullets. This resulted in "severe and profound shock to the nervous system" of Bullets and also gave him a broken back. But Bullets is not mad; he is willing to let bygones be gone for only half a million clams...
...Shock Waves. Tino DeAngelis is an unforthcoming fellow who lives in a modest home in The Bronx, but his name has sent shock waves traveling across the U.S. and even overseas. The London stock market fell last week on news that some London banks had put money into Ira Haupt, and others into British companies that contracted for large amounts of oil from Allied. In Manhattan the brokerage house of J. R. Williston & Beane, which lost heavily in its dealings with Allied, had to be merged into the stronger Walston & Co. And in Chicago, authorities refused an operating license...