Word: jolt
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These types of mines have a magnetometer that detects disturbances when heavy steel ships pass overhead. If the disturbance causes the magnetometer to reach a certain threshold, a jolt of electricity from a battery sets off the plastic explosive. After about six weeks, experts believe, the battery loses power and the mines become inactive. Because the mines were placed in deep channels, the explosions are unlikely to cause serious damage to ships. But those familiar with the operation say that "they will crack a seam in the ship, shake things up and knock people around." That is enough...
eagle disentangled jolt of dawn...
...expect the book to do well but a place on the New York Times bestseller list was a bit of a jolt for us," said Joyce Backman '56, Welty's editor at the University Press "Each pace is a vignette, wonderfully styled and shaped," she added...
...Olympics got a jolt when three U.S. skiers came flying home...
...considered the reasons. The true answers He in the words written in Key West, in the poems of Wallace Stevens, or Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, or Thomas McGuane's Ninety-Two in the Shade. Panel discussions are no place to properly explain the creative jolt writers get from living in the midst of the collective eccentricity that is Key West, or to give away the words that could describe summer nights when the air stays above 90°, preserving a mood of lunacy and transformation. As a gesture of explanation, Sanchez offered, "This...