Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tent and brooded for hours. Finally he cabled his New York office that he could not write the Darlan story. Instead he wrote about the stranger who had died in the ditch beside him. For days he talked of giving up and going home. But when the shock wore off, he knew for sure that his job was not with the generals and their strategems but with the little onetime drugstore cowboys, clerks and mechanics who had no one else to tell their stories...
...armies were not yet locked in the full shock of decisive battle. But the day was at hand; the war in western Europe was about to enter a fourth phase...
...real shock came not from Washington but from London: in response to U.S. urging, the British reluctantly recalled their Ambassador, Sir David Victor Kelly. Argentine nationalists have long believed that Britain was their firm, beef-eating friend, even if the U.S. was not. Ambassador Kelly's recall, threatening joint action by Britain and the U.S., shook this happy notion...
Physicists have yet to answer the fascinating question of what effect, if any, sound itself has on a plane's speed. Why do shock waves hit a plane at the speed of sound? Why not sooner-or later? The physicists' best guess: sound waves signal ahead to air molecules to get out of the way of a moving object; at supersonic speeds the object outraces the warning, runs smack into groups of unwary molecules...
Less well done, Lisa's story complicates the book, blurs its outlines, is tiresome reading compared with the vivid scenes of life & death on the Southampton beachhead. Readers are likely to forget the long talks about politics. They will remember Anne's shock at seeing Marco at her best friend's wedding, the families crowding together in poverty after the suicides and heart failures of the crash. When rich Uncle Bruce Craven went broke, and was charged with having stolen $6,500,000, Marco was the lawyer on the other side. When Uncle Bruce asked his friends...