Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonel Stapp was subjected to more than 40 times the pull of gravity (40 gs); his normal weight of 168 ½ lbs. momentarily shot up to 6,740 lbs. The driver of an ordinary automobile colliding with a brick wall at 50 m.p.h. would be taking much the same jolt-yet Stapp survived it with negligible injuries...
Movie fans with fading memories of a freckle-faced little girl got a jolt when onetime Cinemoppet Margaret {Journey for Margaret} O'Brien, 18, winner of a special 1944 Academy Award (as the year's best all-round child actress), marched up and got a diploma from Los Angeles' University High School...
...help it and they can't help it. We come to the desert and we bring along radios and washing machines and cars and Lord knows what, and we give a shocking jolt to a culture that was sustained for centuries by dates and camels and faith in Allah. We didn't come here to manufacture a nation of imitation Americans, but it happens whether you like it or not. The trouble is, the imitation is neither American nor Saudi...
...unit to express the force of one G (the acceleration of gravity) acting on a body for one second. At Holloman Air Development Center, New Mexico, where men are exposed to Gs for experimental purposes, the experimenters got in the habit of calling the needed unit a "jerk" or "jolt." A man who had taken four Gs for 20 seconds, for instance, was said to have taken 80 jolts...
...Baltimore, viewers of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen's Life Is Worth Living got a jolt when the bishop asked the rhetorical question: "Will the Communists find Christ on the Cross?" and, without any change in the picture, a soprano voice answered loud and clear: "Of course not!" Embarrassed executives of station WAAM explained that a technician had pulled a switch at the wrong moment, cutting off the audio portion of the bishop's Du Mont show and letting in a vagrant sentence from Corliss Archer...