Word: jarringly
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...trudged to the post-office every month to collect her mother's $40 Civil War pension. When Myrtle arrived for the 30th time for the pension, the postmaster decided to walk back to Mother Bishop's with her. He found part of Mother Bishop cremated in a fruit jar, part of her stuck in a trunk, all of Mother Bishop dead two and a half years...
...jar too, when one English-speaking nation refers to another English-speaking people as ''foreigners." GEORGE FITZPATRICK...
...spring. When it encounters a bump or a hole, it will rise or fall independently, as your leg is lifted or straightened by its knee without affecting your other leg or the equilibrium of your body. The result will be that the wheel, not the passenger, will get the jar...
...pansy velvet gown, serene in the knowledge that her exquisite little fan and parasol would be the envy of many a prairie lady back home in Illinois. Lucretia Garfield stands resolutely erect, prepared for tragedy. Edith Carow Roosevelt placidly reads her book. Only the faintest notes of discord jar the harmony among the ghostly ladies in the Smithsonian gallery. Pale Ellen Axson Wilson has joined Mmes Taft and Roosevelt in their glass case, while her successor, Edith Boiling Gait Wilson stands with Florence Kling Harding and Grace Goodhue Coolidge, whose short skirt and sorority pin would have mystified many...
...Washington atmosphere nowadays is conducive to huffiness. Nervous strain crackles throughout the enormously complicated network of the New Deal boards, bureaus, councils, committees. The jar of personalities is added to honest differences of opinion...