Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...running high. We threw everything into the sea that we didn't need. We got all the rest of our stuff together and looked down at the ocean." Then, somewhere about 400 miles northeast of Bermuda, the B-29 smacked into the rolling Atlantic swell with a rending jolt. There was another jolt as the big bomber's high-finned tail snapped...
...Pennsylvania-bred Trumpeter Vaughn Monroe, fronting for a five-piece Boston society combo, was about as low on the bandleaders' register as a man could get. Now & then he would try to jolt his cocktail-and coming-out party patrons from their fox trot and rumba rut by booming Ave Maria or Glory Road in the aggressive baritone he was training for opera in his spare time. But mostly he gave them "what was called for-a hundred and twenty-eight beats to the minute-the debutante stuff and the businessman's bounce...
...current interclub chairman immediately announced his disappointment when the figures were tabulated, and he was joined in his lament by the Princetonian and officials of the University. The "Prince," in its next day's editorial, labeled the returns a "Club Flub," adding that it came as a real jolt to note that "13 percent of the first class to be admitted under the broadened regional admissions system should be refused or ignored membership in the clubs." At that time, one out of every five students belonged to no club, a figure obviously too high assuming the acceptance of the club...
There was no "atomic secret." The basic fact that uranium atoms can be made to split in two, and release a massive jolt of energy, had been common scientific knowledge since 1939. The famed Smyth Report (A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes), which told how to go about making an atomic bomb was published by the U.S. War Department in August 1945. But even without the Smyth Report, U.S. scientists warned it was only a matter of time until some foreign nation, i.e., the U.S.S.R., would build a bomb...
Over fog-shrouded Ganton course, the aroused British gave the heavily favored Americans a jolt. In Scotch-foursome play (where partners alternate hitting the same ball), a pair of 41-year-old Englishmen nosed out the cream of U.S. golfers-Sam Snead and Lloyd Mangrum-and won, one up. At the end of the first day's play, Britain led, three matches...