Word: jarring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were signs that Franklin Roosevelt was trying to stuff Jesse Jones, the jinnee he created, back in a jar...
...Jones was still far from being put in a jar. Dispenser of billions of dollars, as smart at politics as at financing, he has always had Congress eating out of his hand. His removal would unloose a roar of thunder in his home State, Texas, and the South, which has received a goodly portion of Mr. Jones's well-distributed loans. But one man in the U.S. still looms larger: Mr. Roosevelt...
Cookies & The New Life. Other organizations had already been busy for some time. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union's Soldiers & Sailors Department, led by Mrs. Ella P. Christner, rushed forward with a cookie-jar crusade. In four months 34,515 cookies were given away outside Fort...
...side on which I was standing, about twenty yards astern of my position. It felt like the ship had crashed into a well-rooted dock. It threw me four feet across the deck, but I did not fall, and I did not feel any explosion-just this very great jar...
...Almost immediately, it seemed, we began to list, and less than a minute later there was another jar of the same kind and same force, except that it was almost precisely the same spot on the starboard...