Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after-luncheon mint into his mouth when Clark bounded over to him. Said Pearson: "It looked as if he'd been hiding, lying in wait for me. He said, 'Hey you, I want to talk to you.' I stopped . . . and he whammed me a helluva jolt on the neck." After that, according to Pearson, he was too busy "reeling around" to see Clark's blows, but recalls that Clark was "yelling . . . 'Take that for Brewster, take that for Keogh.' " Not so, said Clark: "I hit him in the eye with my left, swung with...
...summer again, Jocelyn had been sent off to Women's Prison, and Amy had a new girl friend, Hortense. The two girls dropped in on friends who were having a heroin party. "We said we didn't want to jolt, but . . . you know how it is when a lot of kids are around; they all started to laugh ... I didn't have the money to buy a cap [shot] with. Danny said he'd give me one; he said it real quick. That's what they always do, any hype that wants...
...confirmed narcotics addict. Their routine was to spend $25 for a half-spoon of heroin, enough to make ten or twelve individual shots. They sold the shots for $5 apiece. But, confesses Amy, "even that didn't pay for all the jolting we did after we got married. Eddie was spending around $40 a day sometimes just for the junk for us to jolt with...
Britain's five-month-old Tory government got a painful jolt from the voters last week. In a struggle for control of the world's most powerful local-government body-London's huge County Council-Socialist candidates ousted 26 Tories and one Liberal, rolled up a huge Labor majority: 92 seats to 37. Cried Herbert Morrison, onetime cockney errand boy who became Socialist boss of London and then his country's Foreign Secretary: "Thank you, London...
...Quiet Man. Millions of other U.S. citizens felt a jolt, too, at the unexpected news that death had come to George VI, the quiet man who brightened the Crown tarnished by Edward VIII's abdication. Tens of thousands of Americans like Gas Station Attendant Jack Greagor had served in Britain as soldiers and bluejackets; tens of thousands more had visited the British Isles as tourists in the years since. But even those Americans who had never crossed the Atlantic, and never would, knew more about Britain and felt closer to the British than had any other U.S. generation...