Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tigers' bid for another national crown suffered its first jolt in the opening match when Bill Kaplan devastated his opponent, 3-1. Kaplan broke the ice by giving Princeton its first loss of the season but the next contest was even more surprising. Playing in the second spot, freshman John Havens beat the Tiger Captain, Arif Sarfraz, by the score of 3-1. Sarfraz was undefeated in the last two years...
...probably responsible for a 1927 quake estimated at 7.25 on the Richter scale. PG&E experts dispute that conclusion, insisting that a more distant fault caused the quake. If they are right-a crucial if-the plant is designed with a sufficient margin of safety to survive any probable jolt in the area...
Died. William Bennett Kouwenhoven, 89, innovative electrical and bio-medical engineer who developed lifesaving heart resuscitation techniques; in Baltimore. Kouwenhoven, who served more than 60 years on the Johns Hopkins faculty, discovered in the 1930s that a brief jolt of electricity applied to a fibrillating heart muscle could restore the organ to a steady pace. While working on a portable defibrillator for use without surgery, Kouwenhoven also found that a stopped heart could often be restarted by brisk, repeated pressure on the breastbone. External cardiac massage has since been used by laymen and physicians to save countless lives...
Real G.N.P. shot up at an 11.2% annual rate in the third quarter, mostly because businessmen at last stopped living off their shelves and out of their warehouses and started filling sales orders from new production. The end of inventory liquidation gave the economy a one-shot jolt that will not be repeated, so the fourth-quarter gain will be considerably more modest. But that will not represent any real setback. The Administration this week will officially predict a 6% growth for next year. That will be enough to bring unemployment down, though at an agonizingly slow pace. The October...
...Quakers began with three losses, defeated Lafayette two weeks ago, and then shocked the Tigers last Saturday for the fourth year in a row. In so doing, they not only gave Princeton's title aspirations a severe jolt, but served notice that the Crimson may be in for more than just a tour of Independence Hall this weekend...