Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...innovative educator. He thus had high hopes of muscling New York City's chaotic school system into order when he became its first black chancellor 14 months ago. But the transition from guiding 40,000 Minneapolis students to dealing with 940,000 in New York was a rude jolt...
Then of course, there's the time I called a woman to ask her to the formal. When she picked up the phone, she literally got an electric jolt in her ear from the receiver. Not exactly an auspicious beginning, but she accepted anyway...
...event last week should jolt all, whether Black, white or member of another minority, out of complacency about the implications of racism. Whatever exactly happened to two Black students who were taken off a shuttle bus and searched by police last week, the Black community has shown outrage at what they consider racist behavior on the part of Harvard and Cambridge police. Their response is merited by the larger systemic problem of which this incident appears only to be a possible example...
That prospect helped jolt the Europeans into moving on the CFC issue. And at a London conference on the ozone issue this week, E.C. ministers will try to persuade other nations to adopt the CFC ban. High on the lobbying list: developing countries, such as India and China, that are just starting to mass- produce refrigerators and other CFC-using products...
...Skin Deep, Ritter has been given a chance to show off both his talent for physical humor and his capacity for dramatic acting. There is a very funny scene in the film in which Ritter has just been given a rather excessive electroshock therapy treatment, and he proceeds to jolt about like a combination of Frankenstein's monster and a subway car on the green line of the MBTA. But it is the scenes in Skin Deep in which he is given the chance to act as the straight man that demonstrate how far Ritter has evolved from Jack Tripper...