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Word: jolt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threat of almost Fujian financial proportions. Japanese products, after all, lost some of their competitive edge in last year's Smithsonian monetary realignments, during which the yen was revalued against the dollar by more (16.89%) than any other currency. Japanese businessmen want to avoid another such jolt at all costs. As a result Japan's trading partners, who have long sought to reason and cajole Tokyo into removing some of its formidable trade barriers, are finding that a mere hint of revaluation can work small wonders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Cracks in the Barriers | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

...strategists, last spring. Those moves, Dutton reasoned, would enable McGovern to pick up a net gain of some 13 million youthful voters over the Republicans and provide the margin of victory against Richard Nixon in November. Last week Dutton and the entire McGovern campaign received another rude jolt from the polls. George Gallup reported that those millions of young voters actually favor the re-election of President Nixon by an astounding margin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISSUES'72: The Young: Turning Out | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

Keneally has written six notable novels, usually dealing either with the small domestic crises of the soul or with spin-offs from historic incidents. It is a measure of his craft that he does not try to plug these themes into today's headlines for a cheap jolt of relevance. Jimmie's tale is played out against a background of incidental chatter and speculation about Australian federation, which in 1900 united the continent's six major colonies into a commonwealth. In the end the reader sees that this is not the background, but the whole point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From the Marrow | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

...Wire watchers in newsrooms from coast to coast got a jolt one night last week when Associated Press printers broke into a bulletin on Apollo 16's blast-off from the moon with: "Listen, my children, and you shall hear/ Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere . . ."The Longfellow classic then lapsed into some blue doggerel dealing with Revere's sexual prowess. It turned out that an A.P. technician in New York, using the hoary rhyme to test what he thought was an in-house circuit, had inadvertently cut into the agency's "A" wire, the conduit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Short Takes | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

Sometimes a face will swim up out of the gloom, pale, frightening and familiar--a star--and you are turned to stone before your own image. The jolt of recognition; it is not for him, but for that self of yours that he has incarnated, that large other you that has blazed up so often in the dark before your tiny, fascinated gaze. But most of the faces in the gloom are anonymous and alike in their intensity. Even the ones who seem idle, the dozens who, as you draw closer to the center of activity, you notice lounging...

Author: By Julie Kirgo, | Title: Hollywood's Last Picture Shows | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

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