Word: jolt
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...leaders of the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square -- an astonishing collection of Nobel prizewinners, professors, rectors, saints. A man could not make his way through the SAS Scandinavia Hotel in Oslo without ricocheting off one paragon or another. Such saturations of virtue and celebrity gave me a jolt of anxiety: this is a perfect target for a bomb. But the choice of Oslo was canny. Norway has its immunities...
McCartney inundated the thirtysomething crowd with nostalgia, wowing their children as well. But once the crowd was safely esconced in the Sixties, McCartney would inevitably jolt them back to reality with a song from his post-Beatle days...
...chance to appoint a young conservative such as David H. Souter '61 grants Bush the opportunity to give the court a rightward jolt that could last for decades. And with two other liberal justices ripe for retirement, a Bush Court could firmly implant the conservative agenda in the American judicial system...
...matter; both stories are masterpieces of subtlety and cunning. Other tales investigate the vagaries of love, married and adulterous, and the mystery that separates the sexes. One woman's musings encapsulate the story collection: "A knot in his mind you might undo, a stillness in him you might jolt . . . Could it be said to make you happy? Meanwhile, what makes a man happy? It must be something quite different...
Officials are concerned worried that a sharp reduction in lending could jolt the U.S. economy into a slump. Such fears were underscored last week when the Government reported that the gross national product grew at an annual rate of just 1.3% in the first quarter, down from a previously estimated 2.1%. Coming on top of a dreary 1.1% growth rate in the last quarter of 1989, the revision indicated that the 7 1/2-year-long U.S. expansion could be in deepening danger of groaning to a halt...