Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Chapman, Director of the Loeb Drama Center, emphasized the "impact" necessary for drama. "College drama must undertake the effort to jolt theatre out of its complacency," he stated. Although the other two speakers did not follow Chapman's semi-militant tone, they agreed with his suggestion in principle...
...Nixon camp's ho-?es that the platform carpentered by Chuck Percy would satisfy Nelson Rockefeller got a bruising jolt toward wask's end. ''The Governor," announced Rockefeller Press Secretary Robert L. McManus, "is deeply concerned that the drafts on a number of matters?including national defense, foreign policy and some critical domestic issues?are still seriously lacking in strength and specifics." Clearly implied was a floor fight that might scar the G.O.P. and furnish invaluable ammunition for the Democrats...
...calm did not come. One day a landslide caused by heavy rains killed 18 people near the city of Valdivia, hard hit by last month's earthquakes. That night a jolt measuring 7.25 on the Richter scale (which counts any jolt over 7 as a major one) shook southern Chile. Next day a new tremor ten miles north of Valdivia set off another landslide, killing two more people. The following day two heavy quakes struck Concepcion, Chile's third city and top industrial center. And at week's end walls collapsed and women screamed hysterically in Valparaiso...
Measured on the Richter scale, which counts any jolt over 7 as "major,"* the five biggest of Chile's shudders ranged between 7.25 and 8.5, striking along a fault line (see chart) that cuts through Chile's southern wheat-growing breadbasket and close to coal-mining, fishing and light-industrial towns...
...earthquakes, only the earthquake-proof buildings put up after the city was last shattered in 1939 survived the first shudder. The cold, rain and sleet of subequatorial winter chilled the survivors as they dug through the ruins for bodies, or camped in the open, waiting numbly for the next jolt. Six old volcanoes and three new ones came to angry life as channels cracked open to lava beds. Just north of the town of Rupanco, a flood of boiling lava poured into Lake Ranco and swept over the town. Short moments before, an avalanche had thundered down a nearby mountain...