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Word: jolt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Western diplomats in Damascus believe that the Syrians are also trying to jolt the Palestine Liberation Organization into adhering more closely to the Damascus line. After P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat visited Iraq and Saudi Arabia recently without clearing his business with Syria, he was summoned to Damascus by President Hafez Assad, who warned the Palestinian leader not to get "too far out in front" of Syrian policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Syria Tries a Shock Treatment | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...economy that stubbornly refuses to cool off, consumers who will not stop spending, prices that keep on rising and, looming on the horizon, the biggest new inflationary jolt of defense spending since the Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Hesitant Recession | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

Billy Cleary's entire body turns red when his team wins. The top of his head glows like a radioactive eggshell, emitting happiness beams in all directions. Innocent backs must beware the jolt of a cheerful slap...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Billy Cleary's Winning Ways | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...explicit detail from soup through coffee, how the woman and her husband managed to conquer their sexual incompatibility with the help of a sex therapist. A magazine writer not long ago met the new young husband of Novelist Erica Jong at a party and realized with a disagreeable little jolt that she knew from Jong's novel How to Save Your Own Life just how large the husband's penis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Back to Reticence! | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...Rose. In the main hallway, a donated defibrillator drew special attention. Everybody knew that shortly after Rose arrived on the Hill, he was called out to help a man electrocuted while stringing a television antenna. The man's heart had stopped, and Rose needed a defibrillator to jolt it back to life with electricity. There was none on the Hill, so Rose drove his car next to the victim and ran jumper cables from the car battery to the man's chest. Even so, the voltage was too weak, and the man could not be revived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: New Doc on the Hill | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

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