Word: jolt
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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...
...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...
Whether by taxation or rationing, cutting back on gasoline would jolt an economy in which the jobs of one worker in seven somehow spin around the automotive industry. Millions of Americans not only build, sell and service cars but also supply the tires, windows and other parts, construct highways, drive trucks or otherwise deliver the goods...
...tried for so long to make me happy, and when she couldn't and tried to talk to me, I was too wrapped up to listen." If Hoffman were still the glib hustler of the early part of the film, this self-recriminating speech would be a jolt-a screenwriter's ruse. But Hoffman's performance has so carefully delineated the alterations in Ted that his generous confession of past sins seems completely natural...
...threatening a defection that could reduce his government's majority to two. Faced with protests by fanatic nationalists over the court-ordered evacuation of a Jewish settlement at Elon Moreh, the Cabinet unanimously voted to forge ahead with new settlements in the West Bank. But the most powerful jolt of the week was a Cabinet decision approving the deportation of the Palestinian mayor of the West Bank city of Nablus. The move prompted the resignations of 27 Arab mayors in the occupied territories and set off strikes and rallies by Palestinians...