Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then came the long plunge down. At first the little white airplane fell like a meteor. Gradually, as the air grew firmer, Bridgeman flattened her out, to 40¬, then 30°. The enormous speed died gradually. As he went back through the speed of sound he felt a jolt, but it did not amount to much...
...jolt a young person gets here will help him to build his youth group at home. We grow a little chain reaction. They won't forget that they were here with 5,000 kids like themselves...
...three times the pull of gravity for the first 9½ minutes) needed to propel a rocket into a permanent orbit around the earth? Perhaps, say the scientists-if the cabin is properly air-conditioned, if the passengers' heads are clamped into position to prevent a neck-snapping jolt during takeoff, if some kind of magnetic suits are provided to hold them to the floor when the familiar pull of gravity fades away. Could the weightless pilot, whipping through space at seven miles a second, depend on his sense of vision alone to keep his balance? Maybe...
Shock After Shock. Bayreuth got its first jolt-though, as matters turned out, a relatively mild one-with the new Parsifal. Gone were the traditional leafy gardens and churchly interiors of the past...
...real jolt came with the Ring cycle. When Wotan appeared on another dimmed-down stage in Das Rheingold, the murmur went up: "He has no helmet!" Muttered one oldtimer: "The stage is so dark I can't even see if he has a beard." (He had.) Shock followed shock. Wieland stripped his stages bare, cut down on all warlike gear save for a few essential spears. Siegfried's funeral pyre was left to the imagination. In Götterdämmerung, nobody got to see Valhalla burn: there was only a red glow in the sky, no sign...