Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kennedy got his sharpest jolt fortnight ago when Brooklyn police solved the rape-murder of a 60-year-old grandmother. Grimly they announced that one of her two attackers was Patrolman Francis J. Rogers, 26, three years a policeman, whose father and brother are also on the force...
...into uncharted territory last week. As trading on the New York Stock Exchange boiled up between 3,900,000 and 4,800,000 shares daily, Dow-Jones industrials hit a peak of 611.87, or 175 points above the 436.89 low of a year ago. Not even tough news could jolt it. The index gave up only 2.35 points on the Federal Reserve Board's discount-rate hike (see above), closed...
...some point during every U.S. high school debate on colonialism in the past dozen years, an earnest youth has pointed with pride to the Philippine Republic and its unflagging loyalty toward its onetime occupiers. Last week the U.S. learned with a jolt that this comfortable conviction needed reexamination. From Manila U.S. Ambassador Charles ("Chip") Bohlen headed back to Washington to report on the Philippine government's increasingly vocal antagonism to the U.S. Two days later, in an ostentatious bit of tit for tat, the Philippines' Ambassador to Washington Carlos P. Romulo was abruptly recalled to Manila...
...time he was eleven, he was lecturing his parents on the virtues of Communism. Then, one night during a government anticorruption campaign, a band of party members broke into his house and ransacked it on the pretense of looking for "hidden treasure." It was Lo's first jolt, and soon there were others...
...thick, flowing mane and a fearsome roar. He no longer bares his claws at Presidents, Congress and the federal courts; six years have passed since he last called his United Mine Workers out on a major strike. But last week, old John L. showed that his roar can still jolt the coal industry. The mere threat of a U.M.W. strike was enough to make unionized soft-coal operators accept costly new contract terms, topped by a $2-a-day wage boost, which will bring the union miner's standard pay to $24.25 a day. John L. has generally accepted...