Word: jolt
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When one reads that a business executive who works in a skyscraper is shopping for parachutes, the "shadow of fear" is no longer merely a specter but a jolt of what reality is now. Terrorists who live in the shadows need to be brought out into the light and their identity made known to the world. Only when they have been smoked out of the dim world of religious fanaticism will our shadow of fear disappear. NICK GIANNIAS Montreal...
...vindicate five weeks of aerial attacks, bolster confidence in the Pentagon's strategy and puncture some of the Taliban's swelling resolve before winter sets in. While the Alliance's siege of Mazar may not have satisfied all those aims, it did give the U.S. campaign a welcome adrenaline jolt. And its significance ran deeper: in its quick betrayals and shifting tempo, primitive clashes and unanticipated results, the battle for Mazar-i-Sharif offers insights into the ways people fight in this forbidding land. Afghan forces on both sides often appear formless to visitors, but they can conceal tightly bound...
...purpose that matches the moment, the message doesn't seem to be getting through. Nowhere is the disconnect more evident than in the "economic stimulus" bill that passed the House on the narrowest of party-line votes last week. The idea is to give the economy a badly needed jolt by getting businesses to hire and consumers to spend. But nearly three-quarters of the $100 billion tab would go toward corporate tax breaks, which might carry weight with political ideologues or help pay off campaign contributors but will do little to pep up a sagging economy...
...when the engine suddenly stopped and the wooden fishing boat was rocked back and forth like a toy by the 4-m waves, Rokaya could only grab her daughters' hands and try to avoid being knocked over by the screaming stampede of mothers and children. Then came another, bigger jolt as the boat capsized, and Rokaya could only watch as first her five-year-old was pulled from her grasp, then her two-year-old, both disappearing into the mass of people struggling to get out of the cabin. The next thing she remembers, Rokaya was out in the open...
...gradually revealing something plain and recognizable, like a fruit stand, a church or a restaurant. Once the scene is set, the poem will ask you to look at it in an odd way, with an effect that is sometimes fantastic in the clearest way. The payoff is the jolt you get from being forced into a new way of seeing that is somehow off—sometimes violently...