Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sudden-and not always rational-gyrations (Ford has gained 37 points since June-mainly because of strong sales and earnings but partly in the hope of a split). Announcement of the split is taken by speculators as the signal to take their profits, and the stock takes a jolt (Ford lost four points on the announcement...
...would be welcome to the equipment, said a Perrin officer, except that it was being used "by the class with the Yugoslavs in it." Recalls Knickerbocker of that late September incident: "It didn't hit me for a few minutes. Then you might say I got a real jolt...
Knickerbocker's jolt led him to write a letter to Texas' Republican Senator John Tower, protesting "a treasonous situation" in which four Yugoslav pilots and four maintenance men were being trained at Perrin in the use of the F-86. By last week angry Texans had formed a "National Indignation Convention" that was drawing crowds of 2,000 and more at its rallies. And the fuss stirred up by Texan Knickerbocker was making national headlines about the policies of three U.S. administrations on military aid to Communist Yugoslavia...
White supremacists last week announced intent to appeal to the Federal Supreme Court, but the jolt of the lower court's ruling was scarcely softened. The Bulawayo Chronicle recalled bygone days when blacks in the territory were not even permitted to use the sidewalks and commented, "How far we've come in Southern Rhodesia." In fact, some progress, though halting, has been made. Among the more notable milestones...
...Family Radiation Kits"-fallout-detection devices. In California's San Fernando Valley, Joseph Nathanson, a Los Angeles public relations man, gravely watched a flatbed trailer truck thunder down Sepulveda Boulevard carrying a giant, tar-coated concrete cylinder with apertures for vent pipes and doors. "It gives you a jolt, seeing that shelter going down the road," he said. "A year ago I'd have snickered...