Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governors of Iowa, Michigan. Minnesota. Missouri, South Dakota. Wisconsin and Colorado read off statements abounding in such jolt words as "desperation" and "depression." Said Iowa's Herschel C. Loveless, leader of the Governors' march on Washington: Farm income dropped 29% below the 1958 level in Iowa last year, and "the farm income slump threatens the health of our entire economy." Said Colorado's Stephen McNichols: The state's "farm economy has been slipping more each year toward insolvency." Said Minnesota's Orville L. Freeman: "The continued disastrous decline in farm income must be halted...
...gimmick was that man can endure momentarily many more g. than he can for even a few seconds. Severe though the players' jolt was, it lasted only 5/1000 of a second. Sponsors of the experiment were engineers from the Stanley Aviation Corp., which is building the escape capsule for the Air Force's new mach 2 bomber, the B58 Hustler. In these capsules the pilot will be fired out of the plane by an explosive charge, will get another jolt when the capsule hits the outside air traveling at supersonic speeds...
...same time, many of the crowd were most interested in the 46-year-old Countess of Shrewsbury, whose husband the earl had sued her-and who in turn had sued her husband-for divorce on grounds of adultery. The scandal had fed the tabloids for weeks, but the real jolt in the case turned out to be the decision...
...stimulated by a feeble pulse of electricity. Their eyes lit up and the muscles around their blowholes "smiled." They became addicted to electrical delight and worked hard to get more of it. Dolphins learned in one demonstration how to operate an apparatus that yields a pleasure-giving jolt. Chimpanzees, which are probably the brightest land animals, need dozens of tries, and even humans do not always get the idea right...