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Bombing by radar through a heavy overcast, the B-29 crews, flying at 15,000 feet, felt the shock of a great explosion. "Somebody," commented "Rosie" O'Donnell, "must have hit something big." Later photo reconnaissance showed 30% of the plant's area "wiped out" and another 55% damaged...
...response to demands from home which shook U.S. politicians to their shoes, the victorious U.S. military force had been demobbed. Bradley knew the story well. He had had to stand by and watch the unmaking of that mighty Army. Appointed head of the Veterans Administration, he had cushioned the shock for thousands of civilian soldiers returning to civilian life...
...conscious" mind), which perceives, remembers and reasons; and 2) the reactive (something like Freud's "unconscious"), which neither remembers nor reasons but simply records. Normally, the analytical mind is dominant. But it can be "switched off" by unconsciousness from injury or anesthesia, more often by acute emotional shock or physical pain...
Republished for the first time in 18 years (in a new translation), A Sports man's Notebook now seems far removed from all such flaming issues, and the brutality of the feudal masters whom Turgenevshyly rebukes can hardly shock a world accustomed to far darker examples of Russian tyranny. Though Turgenev's motive in writing it was to atone for the extreme cruelty with which his mother had treated her serfs, what shines through after all these years is the author's intense love for the Russian land, the Russian tongue and the Russian character...
...planes pulled out of their dives. The shock waves, increased in force by the turning maneuver, continued straight down to the ground and were heard as explosive bangs. Colonel Franklin Paul, chief of the Air Materiel Command's Flight Test Division, explained that a speedboat making a sharp turn does somewhat the same thing. Its normal bow wave, increased by the pressure of the turn, grows into a foaming comber...