Word: jarringly
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...many streams were already packed with growing larvae from lamprey eggs, so the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canadian Department of Fisheries decid ed to destroy the larvae themselves. In search of a selective lamprey-larva poison, they tried more than 6,000 different chemicals on jars containing two lamprey lar vae, two bluegill fingerlings and two small rainbow trout. Some chemicals killed nothing; some killed both larvae and fish. Some killed two of the fish and one larva. Finally, in 1955, Chief John Howell of the service's Hammond Bay, Mich., lab, found a jar with...
...Puck. Yet with the help of Barbara Channing's costume (all her costumes are delightful) and Gregory Levin's music he performs some bewitching dances. I wish I could say as much of the fairies (one of them, oddly enough, is missing), who dance capably enough but who sadly jar the harmony of court-yard and music when they speak...
...paintings in the main gallery of Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum are mostly slashing and explosive, but so familiar has modern abstraction become-at least to hardened gallerygoers-that even the most violent of canvases or aggressive of sculptures no longer jar the eye or jangle the nerves. What was new about the Atheneum exhibition was really what was old-samples of these same artists' earlier work that had been hung in the adjoining smaller galleries. In a sense, the show (see color) consisted of 45 instant retrospectives that revealed how 45 of the nation's top painters...
Going through the necessary soul-searching of deciding whether to fight a battle, or to run away from it, is jar more difficult than the battle itself...
...overwhelming favorite. But Oilman Lyons closed the gap by identifying Waggonner with the national Democratic Party. Cried Lyons: "The national Democratic Party is 80% socialist and 1.000% anti-South. They are taking us down the road to disaster." The election of a Republican Congressman from Louisiana, Lyons argued, would "jar the Kennedy Administration to the marrow of its bones. If elected to Congress. I would stand steadfast and work unflinchingly against the onslaught of socialism...