Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson football fans, expecting a price cut because of the recent repeal of the excise tax on intercollegiate athletic tickets, received a jolt yesterday when the H.A.A. announced a boost for the 1954 season. Rates will rise across the board, with increases varying from 20 to 50 cents...
Freshman once put a stuffed wild boar in the shrubbery in the Eliot House courtyard. With the diffused light glimmering in from the Charles and Memorial Drive just striking its foot-long head and six-inch fants, it certainly gave night man John G. Coakley a jolt; but he cautiously stalked the thing and shortly despatched...
...eyes were like caves in his pale face, and his thin lips and thin fingers often writhed with nervous shyness when he talked. But what Britain's famed Gloomy Dean said was unshy enough to jolt generations of Britons. He approved of divorce, birth control ("We are breeding from the bottom and dying off at the top"), euthanasia, and in certain cases suicide (he thought condemned criminals, for instance, should be allowed to kill themselves as they wished). He disapproved of democracy, cosmetics, Martin Luther, Roman Catholicism and revolutionaries (whom he advocated shooting down "like mad dogs...
Crimson chances of overpowering Princeton with three strong lines received a jolt yesterday when it was learned that Bliss is almost certainly sidelined. The right wing's loss will greatly out the scoring potency of Weiland's Frank Mahoney-job Bray-Bliss combination. Sophomore Pete Summers will probably move up to the third line spot, the Crimson coach said yesterday...
Contrast to France. Though the crash was long in the making, it hit the Western nations with the jolt of grim surprise. Outsiders had grown accustomed to the idea that democracy had taken firm footing in postwar Italy. Over nearly eight postwar years, wily old Alcide de Gasperi, expertly pulling the strings of governmental bureaucracy and party politics, built his defeated country into a respectable, economically vigorous and politically forceful ally of the West. On the surface, Italy seemed a healthy contrast to perpetually ailing France...