Word: jolt
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...transmission of experience in its rawest form." Putting the pageantry of a Kennedy or a Churchill funeral into countless living rooms, is an achievement that the most moving newspaper description cannot duplicate; the sight of a young Dominican being shot in the back by a U.S. paratrooper can jolt the home viewer far more than any account of the same tragedy in print...
Leading the Way. Reagan's greatest jolt came shortly after the war when he was elected to the first of his six terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild and discovered-"belatedly, because I just didn't want to believe it" -that the union had been thoroughly infiltrated by Communists. George Murphy played an important role in Reagan's life at that stage. He had preceded Reagan as guild president and had spotted what Reagan later called "strange creatures crawling from under the make-believe rocks in our make-believe town." Murphy tried to warn...
Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson, 69, who has built a large part of his effort to unify English and French Canada by cooperating with the government of Quebec's Liberal Premier Jean Lesage, got a rude jolt last week. Lesage, 54, who had even been mentioned as a possible Pearson successor, was drummed out of power in one of the biggest election upsets in recent Canadian history...
...trajectory toward its impact point. When it was 13 ft. above the lunar surface and descending at 3.3 m.p.h., the 620-lb. Surveyor shut down its verniers and fell the remaining distance. It struck the moon no harder than a parachutist hits the earth. And even this relatively small jolt was cushioned by hydraulic shock absorbers and crushable aluminum pads under Surveyor's legs and body...
...that Surveyor actually scored an effective bull's-eye. Only one "glitch" marred the performance: one of Surveyor's two antennas failed to extend fully after the craft left the earth's atmosphere. But even this problem corrected itself. When Surveyor hit the moon, the modest jolt snapped the antenna into place...