Word: jolt
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...Well," said Willie, freshening up his cup with a jolt of hootch. "He said he thought the Egyptians had a right to the Suez Canal...
...initial jolt lasted only ten seconds, but that was enough time for the scary question to race through the minds of millions of Californians last week: Is this the big one, the monster quake along the San Andreas Fault that geologists consider inevitable? As it turned out, the earthquake was centered between Whittier and Pasadena, 30 miles from the San Andreas Fault, and it destroyed more nerves than it did buildings. Nonetheless, the shock reminded area residents just how quickly the big quake could come. Warned a California disaster-planning official: "This was a little wake-up call...
Modest though it was, the quake strained civil-defense systems and showed that Southern California is far from ready to cope with the dreaded big one. ! However, the jolt seemed likely to create a new eagerness to prepare. "You can have drills and drills, but it's not reality to people,"observed one emergency official. Last week the quake realities became frighteningly clear to millions in the Los Angeles basin...
When the hearts were restarted with an electrical jolt and blood, warmed in the bypass machines, was recirculated, doctors faced another complication: massive bleeding in each infant's brain. Overall, the surgery consumed 60 pints of blood products, dozens of times the babies' normal volume. Worried about rapid swelling of the brain tissue, the team decided to wait for a later date to install titanium plates custom designed to help close the babies' skulls. In addition, there was not enough scalp to cover both infants' heads; Benjamin's was therefore temporarily closed with surgical mesh...
...There have been 550 or so. They don't keep track of divorces. There's a bar on the right. You shoot your cuffs, walk over the way Bogart would, quiet and self- assured, order the usual, a salt-free seltzer water, slice of lime to give it a jolt...