Word: jolt
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...past, a restarting shock has usually been a jolt of alternating current, but surgeons have sometimes had to give many shocks, and even then have failed to get the heart going again. Far better, reports Harvard's Dr. Armand A. Lefemine, is a direct-current defibrillator. The DC shock may run as high as 7,000 volts, but the current is applied for only one four-hundredth of a second...
...formidable alliance, but last week it received a severe jolt. The landlords of Fars, by apparently hiring assassins to murder a young land-reform agent, turned an angry nation against them. Vowed the Shah: "His blood will be avenged...
...founder of Americans for Democratic Action, one of the last of those who might be described as an unmistakable left-winger. The New Frontier made Morton's defeat a principal campaign objective. President Kennedy twice went into Kentucky to campaign for Wyatt. The Administration suffered a second jolt in Kentucky when Democratic Congressman Frank Burke, who had voted down the line for the New Frontier, lost his seat to Goldwater Republican Gene Snyder...
...than breezes. As the years passed, Inness softened his outlines until all the shapes and forms of nature seemed about to melt together. At their best, his paintings have a rare dreamlike unity: every tree and bush is in its place, but never so greedy for attention as to jolt the overall harmony...
Wagnerians received their first big jolt at the end of Act I, when Isolde (Soprano Birgit Nilsson) and Tristan (Tenor Wolfgang Windgassen) embraced in full view of King Marke, who usually does not appear -or suspect the illicit love-until the end of Act II. The second act, like all the others, was provided with looming, symbolical sets, dominated by a huge shaft ("Of course, I meant it as a phallic symbol," snapped Wieland. "This is what the entire opera is all about, isn't it?"). The enthusiastic opening night crowd gave the reconstructed Tristan an unprecedented 30 curtain...