Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once a choice is made between working toward total abstinence or social drinking, the patients begin training. Each has electrodes attached to his hand. They can produce a shock when the bartender-therapist pushes a control button. Those who are to be abstainers know that they may receive a jolt every time they order drinks and a continuous shock as long as they have a glass in their hand: they are willing to risk the punishment to effect a cure. The would-be social drinker can consume as many as three mixed drinks without a shock -as long...
...Jolted into Action. Infelisi spent four months planning the operation. His aim: to jolt the government into taking corrective action or to scare the institutions themselves into making reforms. The young D.A. went along on three of the raids. After reading police reports on the 283 others, he concluded: "Seventy-five percent of these places should be closed at once...
...effect is ironic, because the 1970 recession was the nation's mildest in this century. But the reason is plain: the downturn's jolt to Americans' accustomed confidence was far greater than its blow to their pocketbooks. Almost two-thirds are now telling pollsters that the state of the economy is their biggest concern. Unemployment has been lower than during any previous recession; yet three out of four Americans expect rising unemployment and economic difficulties this year. "The notion that things will be better tomorrow has received quite a shock," says Economist George Katona...
Exasperated, Mission Control radioed one more suggestion. Roosa was told to close in slowly on the LM, then fire his small control rockets, or thrusters, to give the command ship a sudden forward jolt. Simultaneously, he was to retract the recalcitrant probe. That way, he could eliminate the nonworking piece of equipment from the operation; the astronauts would rely instead on the two mated collars on each ship to make a so-called "hard" dock. Not only did the two collars lock, but the balky latches also sprang loose and caught...
These proceedings might have turned out to be pretty shabby without the presence of first-rate actors who can turn any scene, without warning, into a jape or a jolt. Cassavetes, who took the role to get money to finish his 1968 film, Faces, looks rumpled, intense and angry as McCain and manages to invest this antiheroic part with some characteristic bits of melancholy...