Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's future in it. Some of them even think they can somehow transfer much of their home island's population, energy and talents to the Dominions without diminishing the great collective entity which they think of as "Britain and the Empire." The world might get a jolt if they were right. But most of them still think of Britain as their natural home, and look with scorn on the minority, noisiest in London, which talks of migrating because "this country...
...appointment of a committee of interim editors headed by mild-mannered, pipe-smoking Donald B. Watt, Jr. '47. In the Advocate rooms between Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets, the editors have sorted graduate and undergraduate contributions in an attempt to put together a magazine of "general reader interest" and jolt their charge out of the esoteric mire that drugged circulation down to some 800 copies...
...spot. But since the Labor Party had a clear majority and there was no split in its ranks, the Government probably would not fall. Nevertheless Clement Attlee's regime was in the worst crisis of its 18 months in power and the nation had had its worst jolt since the buzz-bombs began to fall...
...Washington, Department of Agriculture officials announced that the border gates, recently reopened, had been shut again. This time it was a grand slam. To guard U.S. herds, the border might remain closed "for several years." For Mexico's brand-new Government, that was a real jolt. The half million head of cattle that annually went to U.S. markets had meant prosperity for the northern states; and cattle export duties had made up a big chunk of the federal budget...
Mexico's high-riding oil workers got a jolt. When riggers and refinery men walked out last week, in one of their periodic 24-hour stoppages to force wage concessions, the new Alemán Government cracked right back. Troops were called out to guard property of Pemex, the Government's oil monopoly. Furthermore, deliveries went on: jeeploads of soldiers with machine guns at the ready convoyed gas trucks through the capital's streets...