Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takes a crisis to jolt Americans out of their soft, sure ways, their near-total reliance on delivered technology: gas, electricity, oil, cars, trains, buses. To rediscover self-reliance and individual responsibility, and the kind of joy that can be pressed most sweetly from hard times. To re-establish old wisdom and simple certitudes: hot chestnuts in the hand, calories in the tum. Above all, it is a time to take private inventory of friends and bosses, associates, acquaintances and lovers, past, present and putative...
...muskrat, rabbit, squirrel, fox or Persian lamb) hat with ear flaps. Everyone wears warm boots; the best are the felt valenki favored by villagers. People who work outdoors wear, of course. Soviet Union suits. After a long spell in the cold, they raise spirits with a stiff jolt of vodka and a hunk of fatback...
...million-dollar misunderstanding may not be the only jolt for lottery winners. Many are soon besieged by relatives, charities and causes that want to share the presumed riches. One Air Force sergeant who won the Maryland lottery was asked to contribute to UFO research. Dominic Barisano, 63, won the jackpot in Massachusetts, only to give away so much to his four children, 13 grandchildren and eight brothers and sisters that he had no money to pay his income taxes. Says his wife Concetta, 61: "I'm a little sorry we won. One of my grandchildren told...
...near the Great Snow Mountain in central China. It came just as residents of Peking were ending their three-week camp-out in the wake of the great quake that struck the Chinese capital and demolished the nearby industrial city of Tangshan last month. Two days later, a seismic jolt damaged more than a hundred homes on the Izu Peninsula 80 miles south of Tokyo. Scientists said the close sequence of quakes was probably coincidental, though they admit the rash of recent earthquakes in the Far East is disturbing and may suggest that some seismic process that...
...Might that not be carrying nepotism a bit far? And would it not be the wrong way for women to score the breakthrough? Still, the thought of Vice President Betty, tossing off refreshingly candid and sensible thoughts about almost anything, is intriguing. Too bad Ronald Reagan, so eager to jolt the nomination race open with a startling vice-presidential choice, did not try to unify the party with Betty. For that matter, imagine that Jimmy Carter, in a mood of bipartisan unity and love, had selected Betty. That twosome might well have won the White House by acclamation, saving taxpayers...