Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Epitaph for George Dillon is the first of Osborne's attempts to jolt British drama out of the drawing rooms in which it has lived and dozed for many years. It is set in an utterly drab and ugly middle-class house in a London suburb--and a complicated setting it is too, with sitting room, kitchen, hall, stair, and bedroom all simultaneously visible...
...cast is headed by Eric Martin as Jack Point, and he is superb. With his pale, drawn, expressive face he makes a sad jester, but a funny one, so that his transition from comedy to pathos occasions no jolt, because both elements are in the character from the beginning. His movements are compact of nimbleness, and he can sing...
...booming east Texas town of Tyler (pop. 57,000) was recovering from a nasty jolt last week. RADIOACTIVE COBALT BURNS TYLER YOUTH, newspaper headlines had proclaimed; AEC and state health department officials with Geiger counters had combed the town with all the thoroughness of oil prospectors. Fortunately, they had found only negligible radioactivity at suspected sites. But the lad who started it all was still under observation for doctors to figure out how much damage he had done to himself...
...toward week's end, any illusions of progress toward negotiated disarmament got a sudden jolt. In Washington, the Atomic Energy Commission announced that the Soviet Union had set off two nuclear explosions since the start of the Geneva conference. The explosions, "both of relatively low yield," took place in southern Russia, said AEC, rather than at the Arctic site "where most of the tests in recent weeks have been held." President Eisenhower promptly issued a statement notifying the world that "this action by the Soviet Union relieves the U.S. from any obligation under its offer to suspend nuclear-weapons...
World War II provided the economic jolt that unlocked nature's treasure house. Tall timbers crashed in a quickening tempo; new metal mines opened up. Commercial fishing became a patriotic duty-and a $45 million business. To operate the new industry, a flood of immigrants poured in from all over Canada and Western Europe. Population zoomed 60% in twelve years to 1,525,000; Greater Vancouver became a city of 665,000, with spreading suburbs of prosperous picture-windowed homes overlooking the broad, sun-splashed Pacific inlets...