Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...force the youth to dig himself a grave and lie in it overnight. "I think it is a beautiful symbolic thing for the kids to go through," he explained. "It's a way of forcing them to look at themselves." At other times he would shackle the child, jolt him with an electroshock machine dubbed a "lalapalooza," or shut him up in a storehouse...
Even Speiser's hilarious Brucean renderings of a man waking up with an erection and spraying the bathroom walls as he relieves himself and of a groom overwhelmed and reeling at the left-over odor of his own Caelia don't jolt the way they used to. In Bruce's mind the fear of arrest and exposure had mingled with excretory fantasies and the irrational guilt of old-fashioned Jewish toilet training with its terrifying threats--"He made kaka? All right, we'll get a policeman!" So you have to alert your "liberated" psyche against this sense of easy enjoyment...
Open competition on all trades in 1975 is likely to be a major jolt for the already troubled industry; Big Board members last year posted losses of $49 million v. profits of $786 million the year before. Competitive rates eventually are all but certain to wipe out many marginal firms, but that process, however painful, should strengthen the industry as a whole. Still, most experts agree that real prosperity is unlikely to return to the brokerage business until the average investor is convinced that the lagging stockmarket is generating returns equal to those on other types of investments, such...
...finger easily evoke the World War I recruiting poster. The face, though out of context, is similarly recognizable: the gimlet eyes, bowling-pin nose and mashed-potato jowls could only be a particularly cruel caricature of Richard Nixon. And the message boldly lettered around the cartoon character provides a jolt that shakes the drawing's dissonant elements into place: YOU NEED...
...belied by his appearance. His complexion was pallid, and he looked haggard and weary. Clearly, the two weeks already spent in San Clemente had not, as hoped, begun to refresh his spirits or restore his vigor. The evidence of the President's weariness came as a particular jolt to some of his staffers: they literally had not seen him since his arrival...