Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somehow the report leaked to the Boston Globe in May, 1939, and when the story was printed, it was a severe jolt to many people. No dentist felt that his learning could be matched in one and a half years of clinical study. And no dentist liked seeing his profession given second billing to medicine...
...year are bound up in this take-it-or-leave it advising system, and in a sense, the problems of the Advising system are the problems of the freshman year. For basic to both is the unanswered, and perhaps unanswerable question: How much should Harvard attempt to ease the jolt of freshman year? Or, put another way, to what extent is a jolt the necessary prelude to a Harvard education...
South Africa's bootleg native drink, skokiaan (subject of a recent U.S. hit tune), is usually mixed by "skokiaan queens" who know how to spike it with enough methyl alcohol to provide the jolt that thrills but does not kill. The balance is so easily upset that natives often go mad or blind from the skokiaan they buy in the shebeens of the native quarters...
...according to experts of the Office of Naval Research, no ejection-seat and parachute combination can save a pilot flying more than 1,900 m.p.h. at 70,000 ft. Less speed would be fatal at lower altitudes, because the thicker air would hit the pilot with a harder decelerating jolt...
Confusion, though, followed the Dodgers. Partly as a gesture to jolt New York State taxpayers into helping them to build a new stadium, they crossed the Hudson to Jersey City for a second "opening game," the first of seven regular-season "home" games they will play there this year. Somebody gave Jersey City Mayor Bernard J. Berry a ball to throw out. Came time for the historic throw. "Mr. Mayor, the ball," an aide prompted. "The ball?" echoed His Honor with surprise. "I gave it to some kid." The game itself, complicated by the poor playing surface in Roosevelt Stadium...