Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England. You can't help feeling sorry for the man. The Princess inspected us too, when she was in uniform herself. She just walked down the line in those god-awful brown stockings, just as big as life, and now she's Queen. It sure is a jolt...
Local hockey hopes took a had jolt yesterday when doctors reported that sophomore center Dick Clasby had sustained a broken none and bruised chest in the Dartmouth game Wednesday, and would be sidelined indefinitely. The Crimson plays Army on West Point's Smith Rink at 2 p.m. today...
...time the last gavel was rapped, the San Francisco weather had changed and so had the political climate. Ike's campaign was airborne, and Taft's flying bandwagon had taken the stiffest jolt to date. Hardy G.O.P. professionals were not likely to be swayed by either a breach of manners or a fervent speech. But they were just the ones to notice the little shifts, such as the new cordiality between the Ikemen and Earl Warren (who controls 70 California delegates) and the fact that the galleries liked...
Chains. Joe Jang had been expecting to hear something of the sort ever since Chinese Reds had begun extorting money from Chinese in the U.S. Even so, it was "a terrible jolt." His mother's letter did not include a secret symbol used by members of the Jang family if they urgently needed money. But last month a cable from a China-side cousin named Chang arrived in San Francisco. It read: "Your mother asked you cable remittance urgent needed Hong Kong dollars...
...satellite purges that a 100% Muscovite had been picked as the victim. On the surface it looked as if Gottwald had eliminated a dangerous competitor, and there were even people ready to believe that Gottwald was proving himself a potential Tito. More likely, the Kremlin had decided to jolt Czechoslovakia's rulers into meeting Soviet demands by striking down the man who had seemed safest of alL If the most loyal of them all could be convicted of disloyalty, so might men charged with even greater responsibility-President Gottwald, for example. It was entirely possible that before long, Rudolf...