Word: jarringly
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...noon, picking his way through a litter of broken dishes, George stopped to eat a jar of caviar. "Please go," said the restaurant owner. "If you could just go away? Quietly? Just disappear, so to speak? I give you five dollars...
...stuffed 220 packages of cigarets into a pillowcase. Then, chewing his store's last stick of gum, he strolled the streets of Armonk, distributing packs of cigarets to astonished passersby. But back in his drugstore, he slapped his own pockets in alarm. Morosely he reached into a candy jar, ate a peppermint. He had forgotten to save a smoke for himself...
...Government suddenly halted its decree. Renault's will, made ten years ago, had been opened. He had left his automobile works to his 40,000 workers. What would the Government do now? If the workers demanded their rights according to Renault's will, it would jar the nationalization program. If they did not, they would have to share their inheritance with the Government...
Owing to an acute shortage of materials, all members of the armed forces unit at Harvard are urged to return to the dispensaries every empty bottle or jar given them by army and navy doctors. These materials are needed to cope with the increased demands winter brings...
...shirtfront in a few hours. It is also very hard to starve out ; a well-stuffed silverfish can go as long as ten months without food. Recently an entomologist, having failed to get very far with poison, devised an ingenious silverfish trap: he put flour in a glass jar, taped the outside of the jar. The silverfish easily climb the adhesive tape to get at the flour, but the inside glass walls of the jar are too slippery for them to climb...