Word: jarring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Confiscate Anything." A short walk beyond, Housewife Yu Chi-ping is sweeping debris from the dark cliffside cave in which her family lives. The table, two chairs, and a chest are gone, Yu laments. The water jar and crockery are smashed. There comes to mind the Communist high command's directive before the Communists withdrew: "To keep our troops fit... confiscate anything. . . . For firewood we shall use doors, windows, furniture. . . . Cooking vessels must be carried away. What can't be destroyed must be buried. . . . We must sacrifice for our sacred land of democracy and our president...
...bearded lady tried a jar...
...Springy night-breeze, wafted in from Boylston Street, blew over the open pickle jar beside the cash register and made Vag's nostrils dilate voluptuously with the smell of dill. "Ah, Bock," he smiled ecstatically, unaffected by his friend's matter-of-fact terseness. "Harbinger of Spring. Once a year the brewers clean out the dregs from their barrels and market this heady, brown nectar. Why, it's better than Jake Wirth's dark, and you can save the subway trip." He held his glass up and examined its rich molasses-like color in the light. The strains of Stravinsky...
...much sizzle and too little steak. . . . [They] blithely take over the field of morals, metaphysics, and theology. . . . [They] guarantee that [the reader] and everyone dear to her will live happily and untouched by tragedy for the rest of their natural days if she only has this jar of skin cleanser. . . . The unclogging of the pores north of her nostrils will shield her from toil, trouble, disease, disaster, and divorce...
Chain Reaction. In Beverly Hills, Mo., the Leslie Whites had a loud weekend: first, a quart jar of gooseberry preserves blew up; next, three cans of date pudding; finally, a gallon jug of gasoline, which touched off a hundred 12-gauge shotgun shells, a thousand .22 cartridges...