Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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France's payments position stands to get an additional jolt on July 1, when the Common Market is due to abolish all remaining tariffs on trade between member nations. At the same time, the Market is scheduled to introduce uniform external tariffs, which will promptly be reduced in accordance with Kennedy Round agreements. This figures to hurt France, since it presently enjoys some of the highest tariff levels of any of the six Common Market members. Elimination of all tariffs within the Market, meanwhile, will completely open French borders to the goods of such powerful trading partners as West...
Peace could come as a jolt to many countries. Yet the war has helped lay a foundation for economic growth. Even battle-ravaged South Viet Nam will have gained new airports and harbors, built for waging war but equally suitable for handling peacetime traffic. In Thailand, U.S.-built military roads can be used-indeed already are being used -to get native farm products to market. Similarly, says John K. Wilhelm, an American AID official in Saigon, the heavy ocean-cargo volume generated by the war "might simply be transferred to civilian shipping" once hostilities cease...
...into the light box. As is their nature, the rats scurried into the dark box. They were in for a rude shock. Dropping a gate that prevented them from running back into the tunnel, Ungar sent electric current through the grid floor for five seconds, giving them a painful jolt. When the gate was lifted, the rats usually were only too happy to return to the lighted box. The procedure was repeated five times a day for eight days, enough to give even the most slow-witted rat a fear of the dark...
...following years brought sit-ins and freedom rides, King was there with organizational support. He formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and midwifed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Nonetheless, his preoccupation with ideas instead of details was irking his own camp, and Albany, Ga., gave him a rueful jolt. In 1961, just two days after he led a mass demonstration and found himself in jail, vowing to stay there until Albany consented to desegregate its public facilities, King was out on bail and the campaign collapsed. "We thought that the victory had been won," he said. "When...
...Battle of Algiers did nothing else but jolt the audience into realizing that complacency is synonymous with guilt in the minds of an oppressed people, it would be a stunning film on the level of Peter Watkins' The War Game. But acting, awe-inspiring recreation of detail, and stylistic integrity help Algiers rise above even the best propaganda, and leaves us with an overpowering feeling of humanity...