After the first world war he was involved in research into shell shock, which he later likened to the condition of certain industrial workers.

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The roads are generally in terrible condition, and the hardship of life in rural Georgia comes as a shock.

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Skinner, inventor of the Skinner box, which can include an electrified floor to shock rodents and condition them.

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In television appearances, he labeled it as "irresponsible, " going so far as to call it "purple rhetoric" during an appearance on CNN on Sunday, the senator expressed shock, shock that Gov. Bush would try to "partisanize" (sic) the condition of the U.S. armed forces.

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