Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flood. After such a quiet play, Wilder's rambunctious The Skin of Our Teeth proved to be a jolt-so much so that some 75 backers promptly backed away. It was a sort of Hellzapoppin with brains, the story of Everyman (Mr. Antrobus) and the whole human race. Its action spread over 5,000 years, took in the Flood, the Ice Age and Armageddon. "Our Town" says Wilder, "is the life of the family seen from a telescope five miles away. The Skin of Our Teeth is the destiny of the whole human group seen from a telescope...
...even though millions of Americans now regard it as such. After ten years of rising incomes, younger couples have come to look on new homes, new cars, mechanized kitchens, plentiful jobs and good pay as virtually everyone's guarantee in the new U.S. economy. Future shakeouts may temporarily jolt that confidence, yet it is based on a lot of solid fact...
economy. Future shakeouts may temporarily jolt that confidence, yet it is based on a lot of solid fact...
...since the earthquake of July 21, which centered in the nearby Tehachapi Mountains (TIME, July 28). One afternoon last week, while the air was hot and still, Bakersfield heard the familiar, low-pitched rumble, this time louder than ever. Floors, sidewalks, streets and front yards gave an extra hard jolt and a twist. In the downtown areas, timbers and masonry crashed down and plate-glass windows shattered...
...used at Hiroshima, which released as much energy as 20,000 tons of TNT. The Buckhorn Wash "bomb" (160 tons of TNT) released 1/125th as much energy. But because the explosive effect of a bomb decreases only by the cube root of its comparative size, the jolt it gave the rock around it was roughly one-fifth as powerful...