Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright casually told a reporter last January that the Senate Banking and Currency Committee might look into the booming stock market, he got a rude jolt. As the news hit the wires, stock prices were falling. Hurriedly, the Senator, scared by the political effect of a market break, called in the press. What he had in mind, said Fulbright, was no punitive probe like the 1932-34 Pecora investigation (when a circus pressagent popped a midget on J. P. Morgan's knee). Instead, Fulbright was planning "a friendly study...
...When her creatures eventually go their own ways, she has nothing left, not even God, "who gets all the credit for our good deeds, while we are credited only with the bad." By the time she dies, she has not accomplished much, but she has given her friends a jolt by exposing briefly their crimped personalities and petty goals...
This same opposition carried over into 1953, when Case entered the race for the governorship, and party leaders finally froze him out of the primary. They received a jolt, however, after Case resigned from Congress to become president of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic (an organization to further the cause of civil liberties in the U.S.). In the special election to fill Case's seat, the Sixth Congressional District-which Case had carried by a record margin-went Democratic for the first time since it was remapped in 1932. Before long, G.O.P. state leaders...
...Science 1-2 course, which requires Mathematics through calculus of all freshmen, is regarded as the toughest of the "New Curriculum." Professor Arnold B. Arons, who studied under Professor Leonard K. Nash in G.S.A.S. and advocates many of Conant's ideas, make his course purposely tough "to jolt the boys out of a rut and make them exert a real intellectual effort." Unlike Harvard's Natural Science courses, Arons' Science 1-2 and 3-4 serve as the basic courses for science majors as well as other liberal arts concentrators...
...teeming chief city Kampala, where many a white resident found a dead dog or cat crucified on his doorway in grim warning of what might come. A threat from Mau Mau Leader Dedan Kimathi to kill Britain's Queen if she came to visit gave the final jolt to the British governor's jangled nerves...