Word: jarring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girl friend named Sigrid Kraft, who also had a fiancé in the U.S., Gitte procured a packing box 29 inches long by 21 inches deep. She bored some air holes in it, equipped it with inside latches, stocked it with sleeping pills, four slices of black bread, a jar of tea and some razor blades (to slash her wrists in case the worst came to the worst). Then Sigrid sent for Private Robert Siedentopf, a friendly G.I. who worked in the same Army dispensary as Gitte...
...laying the paddle across the boat. 'God, he don't like a lot of rumpus, else why's it so quite out here.") Similarly, Robert K. Bingham's "Faux Pas" proceeds from an ingenious episode idea to pretty dubious execution of it. The infiltrating touches of amateurism would not jar if the top-level did not loom so very near...
Doctors do not know exactly how electrical therapy works. Shock treatment specialists have supposed that it takes a strong shock to jar a disordered mind out of its schizophrenic or manic depressive state. But Britain's Drs. A. Spencer Paterson and W. Liddell Milligan tried a new machine that feeds into the brain a weak electrical current automatically adjusted to the brain's resistance. Instead of shocking the brain, the current puts it in a coma. Like the shock treatment, the new electrical shot-in-the-brain momentarily stops the patient's heartbeat and breathing. But after...
...find new and softer meanings for the term recession. After the downturn this spring, many an economist had feared a fairly sharp drop. Yet even in industries where there had been a sudden slump, notably textiles, the readjustment had been made with no more than a tooth-shaking jar. Now there was hope that other adjustments could be made in a gradual, orderly fashion. So when businessmen talked of recession, most of them no longer meant a big, sudden crack un the whole economy, but a continuation, industry by industry, of the readjustment already under...
...kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a jar country, "who called his own servants. . . . And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one. . . . After a long time the lord of those servants cometh. . . . And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents. . . . He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord . . . behold, I have gained two other talents. . . . His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant. . . . He which had received the one talent came and said, Lord . . . I was afraid, and went...