Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Seitz truly states that what we need most today is a sense of desperate urgency. However, it ought to jolt us that he can recommend for this need only the invention of new means of mass slaughter...
...into her film career with a bellicose zeal and a tomboyish winsomeness that suggested a cross between one of the Furies and Little Orphan Annie. Last year, having made two duds in a row (Dream Girl and Red, Hot and Blue), she decided, probably correctly: "My career needed a jolt...
...insure the lives of soldiers & sailors fighting in the Civil War, was still getting organized when the Union Army lost 17,287 men at the battle of Chancellorsville. Result: the company collapsed. It reorganized the following year, changed its name to Metropolitan in 1868. It got another bad jolt in the 1918 flu epidemic, when at the peak of the disaster, more than 5,000 claims a day were trundled into Metropolitan's home office, loaded in huge wicker baskets. Metropolitan paid 68,000 death claims...
Every writer's urge, he holds, is sprung by some jolt at weaning time; the adult writer's flow of words is a psychological substitute for the flow of milk he wanted and did not get, plus a recompense for all the guilt he has subconsciously felt since his diaper days. Once the analyst has worked the anxious writer back to the point where he can endorse mother's product without fear, shame or remorse, it's simply a matter of putting a fresh sheet of paper into the machine and hitting the keys...
Cherington expressed the opinion that the column was not directed against him, but was meant to incriminate the members of the Commission by their association with him. The headline of the column read: "Democratic Rank and File Might Get Jolt If They Knew Company Leaders Keeping...