Word: jolt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Joey was a hoofer in the play, and Sinatra does not dance a step in the film, but somehow he crowds the screen with rhythm every time he moves. Furthermore, he is a superb rhythm singer. Tense, rackety, jagged with energy, his rhythms pile up, break apart, flow and jolt with all the jeer and honk and curiously impersonal impulsiveness of rush-hour traffic. And nobody can turn a blue note green the way Frankie can−a green as sour and insolent as a pickle waved beneath the moviegoer's nose...
...week shut off German traffic on the Autobahn linking West Berlin and West Germany. Armed Red police forbade anyone to leave East Berlin and searched anyone trying to enter it. With his state thus sealed off, East German Premier Grotewohl went on the air at 8 a.m. Sunday to jolt his people out of bed. Grotewohl gave East Germans just 14 hours to hand in all their currency. Sleepy-eyed, they rushed to special conversion centers to get one new mark for each old one. No one was allowed to carry away more than 300 of the new marks (about...
...called moderate segregationists must now either recognize that moderation does not mean "never" or they must join the radical segregationists. The Little Rock situation may serve to jolt some delaying moderates into accepting
...volcano and cause further shocks. The still-disturbed earth shook Mexico City with nearly 100 tremors during the week. Although many of them were so slight that they could be sensed only on a seismograph, the worst one was two-thirds as strong as last fortnight's big jolt, but caused little further damage...
...Ford Motor Co. brooded over the results of a ten-city survey in which 2,600 set owners were quizzed within 30 minutes of the time five TV programs (Zane Grey Theater, Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, G.E. Theater, Ford Theater, DuPont Cavalcade) went off the air. The first jolt was the discovery that only 10.3% of the sample (270 people) had seen the shows in question. The next was the discovery that fully 31% of the viewers promptly left the room when the announcer began speaking of the product. Surprisingly, women proved more fidgety than men and far more likely...