Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large bill like this is going to be a severe jolt to anyone, regardless of financial circumstances," says a neat card prepared by Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif, and handed out last week by doctors to patients or their kin. And with good reason: Cutter was talking about bills for one of the highest-priced medications currently in general use-fibrinogen, a fraction of human blood. Fibrinogen restores the clotting power of blood, which may almost vanish when a woman hemorrhages during labor, or in patients of either sex after major surgery. Average cost of fibrinogen to the patient...
...found a way of being unobtrusive in the somnolent, night-time living room, of providing just enough surprises to keep the audience from falling asleep but not so many shocks as to jolt them really wide awake. He has developed a knack for picking good guest performers, has made his show one of the prized showcases for new talent. The program can be dull and pointless but, as Paar himself says, "there's nothing like it." He adds with a wry smile, "I'm so lovable, I have a love affair with this whole continent...
...Sputniks' Jolt...
...short, upward-slanting ramp. Strapped under its tail is a pod of rocket fuel, which develops 130,000 lbs. of thrust. In three seconds the F-100D is 400 to 500 ft. up and flying at 275 m.p.h. North American's Test Pilot Al Blackburn says the jolt is not bad at all. "It's a piece of cake," he says...
After 40 years of working in New York restaurants, Wat Kam-san, 60, went back in January to the China he had left as a teenager. Bachelor Wat was in for a jolt. Although he had dutifully sent money to the home folks for 40 years, he had overlooked someone. The someone: his wife...