Word: jolt
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...Olympics got a jolt when three U.S. skiers came flying home...
...considered the reasons. The true answers He in the words written in Key West, in the poems of Wallace Stevens, or Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, or Thomas McGuane's Ninety-Two in the Shade. Panel discussions are no place to properly explain the creative jolt writers get from living in the midst of the collective eccentricity that is Key West, or to give away the words that could describe summer nights when the air stays above 90°, preserving a mood of lunacy and transformation. As a gesture of explanation, Sanchez offered, "This...
...rest of the reason is that you probably cannot afford to go skiing in the first place. So it seems, anyway, to skiers who dropped out of the lift lines a few years ago to start careers and have children, or simply to survive the recession. It is a jolt to realize that the tab for a week of skiing at a major resort is now roughly the cost of a small used...
...made a video and sent it into the pipeline: MTV, local and network rock programs and clubs. You can dance as you watch in New York and San Francisco, as well as at the Schaumburg Snuggery. At Flip-It in Bayside, N.Y., customers get a haircut with a jolt of video rock. At the Panic House in West Hollywood, Calif., patrons can eat to videos, which seems appropriate for an establishment that bills itself as "a Franco-Japanese restaurant of the future." Up the coast, groovies of all ages can "rock and bowl" at Park Bowl, hard by San Francisco...
...lengthened by 24 hours to give ground scientists more experiment time. This was made possible by the shuttle's unexpectedly low use of its "consumables" (oxygen, fuel, electric power). But when Columbia, in preparation for its descent, fired the small maneuvering rockets, or thrusters, hi its nose, the jolt rocked the ship. The usually laconic Young said that it sounded like a "howitzer blast going off in your backyard...