Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oldsmobile-Allard out of the short curve, tires screeching, and sped on toward the little hump-backed bridge. Driver Wilder, a veteran of sport-car racing, knew what to expect at the crest of the bridge: a brief, soaring pitch with all four wheels off the ground, then a jolt as the car settled to the roadway again-then a strong foot on the gas for the next hill. But Driver Wilder never made the hill. His Allard smacked down askew on the roadway, veered, skidded up a bank and turned over. Driver Wilder, his skull crushed, was killed instantly...
George S. Patton. The hickory-chassis car took the jolt, as did the passengers, but Blood & Guts' caretaker called the law, and Bill was booked for reckless driving, only to have the case thrown out of court...
...Jolt for the Premier. But even before Bidault left for home, the clouds drifted back across the sun. Of course, he told newsmen, France still wants revisions in the treaty, one way or other, and it will not even attempt to push the treaty through the National Assembly until the French revisions have been "redrafted and accepted" by the other five powers. "A great step forward could be taken." said Bidault with perhaps more candor than he intended, "if France were in a position to make up her mind as to what she really wants to do." The fact...
...Gaulle's continuing intransigence seemed to jolt René Mayer out of the notion that he could appease everybody. The Premier replied to De Gaulle at week's end with the most spirited defense he has ever made of the European Army ideal. EDC offers France, he warned, the only feasible way of getting both the security of West German military strength and safeguards against a revival of aggressive German militarism. "Who," he asked, "will take the responsibility of leaving France alone in the face of mounting dangers...
...Lilienthal went into private enterprise as a consultant to Lazard Fréres & Co., New York investment bankers. (His chief current interest: management of Philadelphia's Attapulgus Minerals & Chemical Corp.) This week he had a new book on the market with a title that, at first sight, might jolt his old New Deal disciples. The title: Big Business: A New Era (Harper...