Word: jarringly
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...radar-controlled and skillfully handled. Americans strafing at low levels have been hit and sometimes forced down by a variety of missiles, including rifle and burp-gun bullets and grenades. In one low-altitude flight last week, an F80 pilot, returning to base, found the explanation for a jar he had felt on his strafing run: a large stone, thrown at him from the ground, had smashed into the leading edge of his left wing and stuck there...
Griswold wrote a theme song-"Some Insolvent Evening." He took a slogan from a mayonnaise jar-"Keep cool but do not freeze." Gradually, his life began to settle itself into a pattern...
...independence of involved, story-telling props. The children's airplane swing on which the figure poses might be taken to symbolize the young showoff side of any artist's make-up as well as the realist's happy lot-which is to go around looking. The jar of fish he totes with him might symbolize almost anything. But those two props do not make the painting, or even intrude on it too much...
Station Five was marked "Urinalysis." There was a short man there, sitting behind a small table and grinning pleasantly; opposite him, on a long bench, sat a group of men fingering their cloth bags and staring uncomfortably across the room. An empty jar rested on the table, and the short man occasionally looked up and tapped it with a glass...
...lower its guard. Secretary of the Treasury Snyder warned of serious shortages, heavy taxes and inflationary problems for years to come. Preparing for this month's meeting of the North Atlantic pact allies, defense planners, led by Secretary George Marshall, were drafting plans and approaches calculated to jar Western Europe out of its lethargic attitude toward its defenses...