Word: jarringly
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Surely Harvard was justified by the result in declaiming all of its speeches, excepting only two or three minutes of rebuttal; but the transition from those precious seconds of direct clash and exchange of ideas to the meticulously phrased and memorized conclusion could not fall to jar the attentive listener. If such an inevitably mechanical performance must succeed to a notable Harvard and Oxford tradition in debating, we ought at least to go into the new order without any illusions as to what we are doing. We are sacrificing the ideal of the sport for the sport's sake...
...Grannich laughed hysterically, was too overcome to speak in English, shouted: "Ich hob aruntergenummen die shich jar alle menschen?" (I removed my shoes in front of all the people...
Surgical Ants. When Indian warriors return home after inter-tribal clashes, tribeswomen anesthetize their wounds with ginger. Beside the "doctor" is a jar containing a species of ferocious, strong-jawed ants. After drawing the lips of the wound together, the "doctor" holds an ant close to the wound, lets it bite. If and when the mandibles strike on each side of the wound, the ant's body is snipped off. The death grip of the head holds the wound together. Often as many as six ants are used on large wounds. Thus drawn together the wound is smeared with...
...Henri Beyle had many mistresses, but in his whole life loved only one woman besides his mother: Mathilde Visconti. She was faithful to her husband, and would have none of Henri. Proud of his English, he could not make himself understood in London when he wanted to buy a jar of jam. His books were not successful; the publisher of one of them wrote to him: "The book must be sacred-nobody seemed even to dare to touch it." His friends were not sure of him: his remarks, written and printed, might have been irony but seemed to some people...
Clinic orderlies are used to screams and struggles. Moving resolutely among the obstreperous children the orderlies filled eye-sprays from a big jar, seized children by the scruff of the neck, vigorously sprayed their eyes...