Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divided between Britain's Sir John D. Cockcroft and Ulsterman E.T.S. Walton. Working as a team at Cambridge, England, they built a high-voltage machine in 1932, seven years before the discovery of uranium fission, which smashed lithium atoms, turning each into two helium nuclei and a powerful jolt of energy. The Cockcroft-Walton reaction is inefficient, but the energy that it produces is genuinely nuclear, released when mass is turned into energy...
Meanwhile, form 11-C was the biggest jolt to the American gambling fraternity since 1913, when Donerail won the Kentucky Derby...
After old William Randolph Hearst died last August, his heirs got a jolt from Marion Davies, the Chief's great & good friend for over 30 years. A document, signed by the Chief, was produced that seemed to give her control of his vast publishing empire. At first, administrators for the estate made light of the trust agreement as worthless. A second look convinced them that they might have been hasty. But no one wanted to fight the matter out in court. Last week, after a month of negotiating, the Hearst heirs signed an agreement that gave Miss Davies...
...been easy. A rude jolt was handed to his plans in the past week when big Ed Weaver, one of the two ends who are the only lettermen left from last year's squad, was declared temporarily ineligible for today's game, ostensibly for failing an exam. Also injuries have been added to the basic insult over the past few weeks, and top backs Tom Bell, Freddle Meyers, John Wing, and Pote Manus were unable to appear last Saturday against Dartmouth. All of them, however, may be back in action today...
When Colonel Blimp opened one of his favorite papers one day last week-the Tory Evening Standard-he got an eye-bugging jolt. Gad, sir, the Standard seemed to have an odd new contributor: hell-raising Laborite Aneurin Bevan, who once called the Conservative press "the most prostituted in the world...