Word: jolt
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Born Losers. Sometimes this clutter gets an enlivening jolt from the real world. For Benson this occurs when President Nixon visits China-when "The Foreign Devil re-enters the Forbidden City. After 72 years." In 1900, the year of the Boxer Rebellion, the foreign devils included everyone from Europe's great powers, the U.S. and Japan, all looking for their piece of the enormous fortune cookie. It is the Boxers, those Chinese Robin Hoods who thought their magic would protect them from Western bullets, who most excite Benson's imagination. By creating Norris Blake, a reporter for Joseph...
...waves, they arrive at seismic listening posts ahead of the S waves. While investigating the small tremors that often occur in the Garm region south of the Central Asian city of Tashkent, Russian seismologists were surprised to discover that in the days or weeks before a serious jolt, the relative velocities of the two types of waves changed. The interval between arrival times decreased significantly. Then, just before a big quake, the velocity relationship reverted to normal...
...significant changes in the relative velocity of P and S waves prior to more serious tremors. Furthermore, they note, the duration and intensity of the effect-which changes the relative velocity of the waves by as much as 13% -was directly proportional to the magnitude of the eventual jolt...
...cooperation of the television networks, wire services, newsmagazines and major newspapers. They would have to accept the council as a legitimate judge of accuracy and fairness and submit to its fact-finding procedures. Last week, still lacking a staff and a committed budget, the embryo group received a severe jolt when the New York Times announced that it will boycott council activities...
...understand the physical education department is working on it, but I think they need a slight jolt," she said...