Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highly disturbing hostility toward all the world. No one's flesh crawled when Jack Benny carried on a running gag about a bear named Carmichael that he kept in the cellar and that had eaten the gasman when he came to read the meter. The novelty and jolt of the sickniks is that their gags ("I hit one of those things in the street-what do you call it, a kid?") come so close to real horror and brutality that audiences wince even as they laugh...
...Reid sat down to the traditional Texas execution eve "breakfast" (scrambled eggs, pork chops, coffee), later leaned casually on a rail, notebook in hand, as Williams entered the execution chamber. But another reporter noted that Reid pursed his lips as Williams took the first 15-second 1,800-volt jolt. The reporter later asked Methodist Reid, "Were you praying then?'' Answered Reid: "I always pray...
...blood by ten factors (most transfusion matching covers only two), had even picked men of the same eye and hair color and body build. Beyond that, he could only guess. Perhaps it was because his patients had been healthy before the accident, then had suddenly received such a whopping jolt of radiation that it could not fail to knock out their marrow function-including antibody formation. Frozen marrow keeps for at least six months; if it can be kept longer, general bone-marrow banks may become practical. In any case, Dr. Jammet suggested, people working around reactors might have some...
NATO is ten years old this week-and the occasion would normally be observed by congratulations on having kept the peace for a decade, mixed with strictures about the need for more strength. Instead, as has happened before, the Russians have given the Atlantic Alliance a jolt which shows that, below the surface, some basic disagreements exist...
What gave committee members the roughest jolt was Slichter's suggestion that the U.S. gradually abolish all tariffs and import quotas over the next ten years. Getting rid of protective tariffs, he said, would expose U.S. businesses to brisker competition, force them to become more efficient, more imaginative, more resistant to excessive wage demands. "No single step that the Government could take," said he, "would make such an important contribution toward strengthening the American economy...