Word: jarring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suddenly there was a hard jar, just like when a tooth is pulled and you feel it crunch. The burning motor had fallen loose. The wing kept burning and we were coming down...
...hard on the belly with an awful jar which would not stop. We slid across the sand. We who could, jumped out. The other survivors were handed down and we dragged them away. The plane burned slowly at first, and then fiercely. I do not remember too well. There wasn't any sound but those flames...
...year-old parish church that still bore, on the sundial over its porch, the Saxon inscription: THIS IS DÆGES SOL MERCA ÆT ILCVMTIDE (This is the day's sun mark at every tide). And when Read was nine years old, a glass jar filled with "black, blind and sinister leeches" was carried upstairs to his dying father's bedroom...
...cover of the new Radditudes is white--neutral. That may be symbolic of Spring or finals, but it also represents the quality of the printed material on the inside pages of the magazine. The stories will jar nobody, and disappoint only a few, for they are almost without exception more skillful and a lot less neurotic than the last crop, but there is little that rises above the higher stages of mediocrity...
Mail it in for a half-pound jar...