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...defend China's heart, the Gimo had disposed 400,000 troops in the flat, rich, water-laced plains around Suchow. At week's end, as his soldiers met the first shock of Chen Yi's armies, Chiang made one more effort to rally his people around him. At a Kuomintang meeting in Nanking, Chiang cried: "Our war against the Communist rebels is a national war, a continuation of the war of resistance against the Japanese . . . We must be ready for a struggle of eight years or more against the Communists . . . The government is determined to fight...
...serious psychoses, shock (electric, insulin or metrazol) is sometimes effectively used to jolt depressed psychotics back to normal. Some psychiatrists admit that electric shock superficially resembles the medieval torture of the insane. (The beatings that the insane used to get, with chains, whips or rods, may actually have helped them, no matter what the intent.) The modern version is applied with more humanity, no more understanding of what makes it work. But patients who are so sick that they cannot talk at all may be able to talk after shock. Psychiatrists try to use such brief lucid periods to start...
...speechless with shock but finding the right...
...Leeds was being sued for return of a $1,000 engagement ring by an ex-fiance who had been trying, without success, to get either the ring or Lila. At week's end Mitchum's attorney, Jerry Giesler, drove into a tree, suffered broken ribs and "profound shock." Meanwhile, Variety noted that the latest Mitchum movie, RKO's Rachel and the Stranger, was No. 1 at the nation's box offices...
...Concord and in Salem, he wrote it, grew sick over it, and let it be published in a hurry with the long introductory essay on the Salem Custom House-an essay, then, of political significance and courage-acting as a kind-of "lightning rod" to keep the full shock of his masterpiece from the public. Imagination and the life of Salem had interpenetrated. Wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes: "He has done it, and it will never be harsh country again ... A light falls upon the place not of land or sea! How much he did for Salem...