Word: jolt
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Thus it might have come as something of a jolt for the Atlantic's readers to learn that their august, old-Boston publication will soon be in the hands of a smooth non-Yankee who has made millions in real estate development. By May, after a few minor details are worked out, Mortimer Zuckerman, 42, will take over as president and chairman of the Atlantic Company, which includes the magazine and its book publishing division, the Atlantic Monthly Press.* Says he: "I hope to combine the magazine's very special place in American letters with a solid financial...
...airhitcher's take-off is exhilirating--a rush of relief and smugness accompanying the first jolt and momentary weightlessness. His dress is required--tie, with an Oxford shirt and pressed pants. His approach is crucial--an earnest, American look-in-the-eye and the words, "Excuse me sir, I'm a college student who must get back east as fast as possible. May I have a ride?" The outcome varies from a 48-hour wait in the burning sterility of the Salt Lake City International Airport to a quick hop across America in three aircraft...
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...
...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...
...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...