Word: jarringly
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...reversed. Born in England, Beardwood cut his teeth as a reporter for the Offaly Chronicle in Birr, County Offaly, and so was in perfect position to guide Stein through the intricacies of Irish politics, money and idiom- from RUC (for Royal Ulster Constabulary) to "Let's have a jar and a crack" (a drink and a talk...
...came with a vengeance. Not only was the weather sweltering-temperatures hovered around 90 degrees all week long-but there was also a temperature inversion. Like a lid on a jar, a stagnant upper layer of warm air kept heated air below from escaping. And what air! The city's brisk winds stopped dead; the sky darkened. Oxidants, caused by the reaction of nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons to sunlight, became a major addition to the city's usual outpourings of sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and tiny particles of lead, asbestos and other suspended matter. Day after...
...temporal bones, no one can be certain. When his skull was exhumed in 1863 and 1888, those bones were missing. Evidently they were saved at the time of the original autopsy. Stevens and Hemenway conclude that "perhaps in a forgotten cellar in Vienna, a small formalin-filled jar holds the answer...
Then a man shakes money out of a cookie jar, sticks it into an envelope addressed to Box 3456, Washington, D.C. "I've just got to do something," he mutters, and sends the money...
...report that he had tried to escape; then the policeman lowered his gun and said he wouldn't shoot Newton because he was going to die in the gas chamber anyway. It was a common practice for the police guards to kick the foot of the bed to jar Newton's wound open and to start it bleeding under the bandage...