Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addict, often for the first time, a sense of belonging to a group. Instead of a "fix," it offers, by the example of the ex-addict leaders, hope that a cure is possible. And because the group governs and disciplines itself, it gives the addicts and other convicts a jolt of self-respect...
With The Centaur, his seventh published volume in the last six years, John Updike has switched into a new mode: use of the classic myth set up as framework for a contemporary tale. Updike readers will find it a bit of a jolt. One is used to seeing Updike detail the perfectly ordinary life; the marriage that never should have been, or, again and again, minutiae of his boyhood in rural Pennsylvania...
That statement was deliberately calculated to jolt Diefenbaker-but not nearly to the extent that it did. At least 20 officials, including Under Secretary George Ball, took part in its preparation, and at the White House it was approved by McGeorge Bundy, the President's special assistant for national security affairs. Once Secretary of State Dean Rusk (who had not seen it originally) had apologized for the tone-although not the substance-of the U.S. statement, the White House passed word that the subject of Canada was not to be mentioned again until after April 8, election...
...radio energy, which they call synchrotron radiation, comes from high-speed electrons moving through clouds of turbulent gas that have been expelled from the galaxy. Best estimates are that when those clouds were freshly expelled from the strongest radio galaxies, they contained 5 times 10^60 ergs. This jolt equals the amount of energy that would be released if all the matter in 2,500,000 suns were totally converted into energy. Such total conversion is theoretically possible, but astrophysicists do not know of any way that it could take place in the practical universe...
Mills's views, which threatened to delay tax reduction until the long congressional battle over tax reform is fought out, gave the Administration a jolt. White House staffers pored over the text of the Mills interview with intensity, found some comfort in a passage indicating that Mills would go along with a tax bill containing "some reforms" that only partially balanced the rate reductions. At his press conference, the President said that Mills and the Administration might not be "so far apart." He intended, he said, to "go ahead with our program." That afternoon, at the President...