Shellshock

It was what they call shellshock, a terrible thing. ❋ Henry Van Dyke (1892)

"I was in shellshock because I'd been pretty badly beaten up on the last film," Hardy said. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was once known as shellshock or even combat fatigue. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"The wind of a ball," what we should now call shellshock, sometimes killed men whose bodies appeared to be uninjured. ❋ George McKinnon Wrong (1904)

She'd been hearing bits about this "shellshock" business from Sarah, and it didn't surprise her at all that Reggie suffered from it-fine, so he was overwhelmed by fear. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)

"After nine years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, they are beginning to recognize age-old legacies of the battlefield -- once known as shellshock or battle fatigue -- as combat wounds, not signs of weakness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nobody on the tanker died in the action, but upon return to the Brooklyn Naval Yard, three crew members were treated for post-traumatic stress disorder, then called "shellshock" or ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Now that we're alone, boy," Grandfather said, with a particularly vicious look out of the corner of his eye at Reggie, "I want you to know I don't hold with this 'shellshock' nonsense. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)

He was a World War II veteran in Italy, France, Germany and the Philippines, and he blamed it on shellshock. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He suffered terribly from shellshock after the First World War, in which he was a medical orderly, and the experience both destroyed part of his character and elevated literature in his mind to the role of saviour. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I don't care if we're killing time before Downton Abbey to see if Mr Matthew Crawley's penis still has shellshock or Lady Mary's labia has killed any more Turks. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In one presumed lesson of the Great Depression, a splurge of deficit-financed spending is supposed to support the economy while consumers and businesses get over their shellshock. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)

He wears a permanent look of hard, dishevelled shellshock. ❋ Danny Wallace (2010)

A psychiatrist would probably explain this condition as shellshock after living with Slick Willy for all those years of relationships with other women. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The managers of these stores suffered from some sort of shellshock, they were walking wounded, broken people hounded by micromanaging corporate types, tyrannical district managers who always popped in at unexpected times and harangued by customers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An officer is killed in a recovery home for shellshock cases. ❋ Jmnlman (2009)

There wasn't a moment's silence at Voldemort's death, no shellshock, no disturbance. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But he also believes that consumers are overdue to get over what has been an initial bout of shellshock in which they've made deep cuts in spending beyond anything warranted by even the harsh recession that the U.S. is now undergoing. ❋ Unknown (2009)