Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East, and after a day of forking dung and tending the cattle he would sit down at the noisy living-room table and calmly work on his translation into Chinese of The Pilgrim's Progress. Or he might hitch up the horse to the ramshackle cart and jolt off over the moors to set a farmer's broken leg. Sundays, he often preached in a neighboring church...
...cash is plentiful in the current U.S. art market-and pedigreed paintings are scarce. Average collectors may well be confused by recent auction prices. So may experts. (The jolt of the year was a Bellini from the Jules Bache collection. Bache had paid $160,000 for it; a dealer got it last month at auction...
...slammed to earth by a bullet in a death as curt and ghastly as any ever publicly released. In still another, one of two stretcher-bearers falls shot, and the head of the wounded man bangs to the ground. It is not possible to describe the sickening jolt in the heart and stomach which these and other shots give; it is equally impossible to escape the jolt when you see them...
Americans have always been sure they are the very best people in the world and own all the very best things. Last week, in a long, angry post-mortem on Rundstedt's breakthrough, the New York Times' s military expert, Hanson Baldwin, gave a stiff jolt to this national pride...
...present the Negro (in books, newspapers, movies, texts) to the public in a fair, sober light. "The university of the arts has permitted Paul Robeson, Marian Anderson, and Roland Hayes to 'convert' many hostile persons. Jesse Owens . . . Joe Louis . . . George Washington Carver . . . have provided the first jolt to many minds steeped in stereotyped ideas...