Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...states and cities loose from the oppressive purse strings of the Federal Government, leaving them with fewer federal dollars but more freedom to decide how they would be spent, and he would lower the burden of all taxpayers at the same time. Thus it came as quite a jolt to the President last week when some of the beneficiaries of this new freedom protested loudly that the President's plan was hastily conceived, harshly implemented and downright unworkable. The chorus of protests rose at a Detroit conference of the National League of Cities, an assembly of 2,500 local...
...narrator, Daniel Francoeur, is a writer living in London; he pays three visits to his aging parents in Providence, the last of them on the occasion of his father's funeral. Standing beside the coffin with his six brothers, Daniel finds himself weeping: "Then, with a little jolt, I felt that I was being dramatic, and my sobbing stopped...
Fifteen years ago, the 3.2-acre site of Harborplace was part of a 250-acre wasteland of rotting wharves, markets, warehouses and railroad yards, the worst of Baltimore's then decrepit downtown. Its transformation into the commercial and social centerpiece of the Inner Harbor and the energizing jolt it has sent through the entire city are the result of $20 million worth of construction, plus the ideas and energy of an affable Marylander named James Wilson Rouse...
...equal and opposite network of betrayal). The system starts with nods and smiles and wordless understandings; it elaborates itself interminably through certain assumptions, casual promises, oral agreements, laborious plans, written contracts and formal vows, and ends finally in that thunderous atavism, the solemn oath: the promise with a jolt of the sacred in it, the upraised hand, the divinity standing by to witness...
...Absorption, Aharon Abuhatzeira, was facing charges of theft, fraud and violation of public trust, allegedly committed, while he served as mayor of Ramie, near Tel Aviv, in the 1970s. Any of these relatively minor political difficulties within Begin's fragile coalition could be sufficient, in the end, to jolt him from power...