Word: jolt
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...eyes were like caves in his pale face, and his thin lips and thin fingers often writhed with nervous shyness when he talked. But what Britain's famed Gloomy Dean said was unshy enough to jolt generations of Britons. He approved of divorce, birth control ("We are breeding from the bottom and dying off at the top"), euthanasia, and in certain cases suicide (he thought condemned criminals, for instance, should be allowed to kill themselves as they wished). He disapproved of democracy, cosmetics, Martin Luther, Roman Catholicism and revolutionaries (whom he advocated shooting down "like mad dogs...
Crimson chances of overpowering Princeton with three strong lines received a jolt yesterday when it was learned that Bliss is almost certainly sidelined. The right wing's loss will greatly out the scoring potency of Weiland's Frank Mahoney-job Bray-Bliss combination. Sophomore Pete Summers will probably move up to the third line spot, the Crimson coach said yesterday...
Contrast to France. Though the crash was long in the making, it hit the Western nations with the jolt of grim surprise. Outsiders had grown accustomed to the idea that democracy had taken firm footing in postwar Italy. Over nearly eight postwar years, wily old Alcide de Gasperi, expertly pulling the strings of governmental bureaucracy and party politics, built his defeated country into a respectable, economically vigorous and politically forceful ally of the West. On the surface, Italy seemed a healthy contrast to perpetually ailing France...
...Action invited State Treasurer Foster Furcolo, a onetime (1949-52) Fair Dealing Congressman, to speak to their state convention last week, they thought they would get the typical pep talk with which ADAers exhort each other to do battle with the "forces of reaction." Instead they got a sharp jolt: Democrat Furcolo, who is expected to run for the U.S. Senate next year, as much as told them they should pack up and disband...
...elections in Lancashire. Recent public-opinion polls also report an average 2% gain in Socialist popularity. In a general election this would be enough to give the Socialists power, and a 15-seat majority in the House of Commons. Holborn, reported the Times of London, was "something of a jolt for the Government...