Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hearsts received another jolt two weeks later. Striding showily into a Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco's Sunset district, a black man and four white women wielding semiautomatic carbines announced, "We're from the S.L.A." "This," shouted one of them, "is Tania Hearst!" Unmistakably, the bank's automatic cameras filmed Patty Hearst brandishing a rifle at center stage in the bank lobby. Needlessly opening fire as they left the bank, the robbers fled with $10,960. Declared Patty's distraught father: "It's terrible! Sixty days ago, she was a lovely child. Now there...
...parts of the Pacific and North American plates have slid some 30 ft. past each other. Near San Francisco, there is another locked section. Sooner or later, such segments will have to catch up with the inexorable-movement of the opposing plates. If they do so in one sudden jolt, the resulting earthquakes, probably in the 7-to 8-pt. Richter range and packing the energy of multimegaton hydrogen bombs, will cause widespread destruction in the surrounding areas...
...approaches fall, bringing down hundreds of cars with them. In the Bay Area Rapid Transit System's 3.6-mile-long underwater link between San Francisco and Oakland, hundreds of commuters are trapped in the terrifying darkness of the swaying tube. Only 30 seconds have elapsed since the first jolt was felt, but everywhere there is unbelievable death and destruction. At least 10,000 people are dead; more than 300,000 have been injured, 40,000 of them seriously enough to be hospitalized. Property damage is $10 billion...
Just a sip out of the Jack Daniels bottle in which Peg kept his hot as ice and clear as crystal brew was enough to feel a hell of a jolt, but Daniel had to go and pour the whole thing into his beer and Gay came back and, taking off her denims, climbed into the tub and suddenly it was right. Shooting stars peeled off the cob of the Milky Way, iridescent silk whipped off the rich black and yellow health of night, plunging into the darkness of the valley where a pair of headlights twined down the pass...
...rest of 1975. Nonetheless, the long road back to full prosperity contains many potential pitfalls, which were all too evident last week. President Ford finally produced a plan for gradual decontrol of oil prices that has a chance of passing Congress, but some threat remains of an abrupt jolt to the economy when present controls expire Aug. 31. A June spurt in consumer prices indicated that inflation is not yet dead, and a renewed rise in interest rates stirred fear among some economists that the Federal Reserve Board is not pursuing policies expansive enough to promote an accelerating recovery. Details...