Word: jolt
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...some point during every U.S. high school debate on colonialism in the past dozen years, an earnest youth has pointed with pride to the Philippine Republic and its unflagging loyalty toward its onetime occupiers. Last week the U.S. learned with a jolt that this comfortable conviction needed reexamination. From Manila U.S. Ambassador Charles ("Chip") Bohlen headed back to Washington to report on the Philippine government's increasingly vocal antagonism to the U.S. Two days later, in an ostentatious bit of tit for tat, the Philippines' Ambassador to Washington Carlos P. Romulo was abruptly recalled to Manila...
...time he was eleven, he was lecturing his parents on the virtues of Communism. Then, one night during a government anticorruption campaign, a band of party members broke into his house and ransacked it on the pretense of looking for "hidden treasure." It was Lo's first jolt, and soon there were others...
...thick, flowing mane and a fearsome roar. He no longer bares his claws at Presidents, Congress and the federal courts; six years have passed since he last called his United Mine Workers out on a major strike. But last week, old John L. showed that his roar can still jolt the coal industry. The mere threat of a U.M.W. strike was enough to make unionized soft-coal operators accept costly new contract terms, topped by a $2-a-day wage boost, which will bring the union miner's standard pay to $24.25 a day. John L. has generally accepted...
Epitaph for George Dillon is the first of Osborne's attempts to jolt British drama out of the drawing rooms in which it has lived and dozed for many years. It is set in an utterly drab and ugly middle-class house in a London suburb--and a complicated setting it is too, with sitting room, kitchen, hall, stair, and bedroom all simultaneously visible...
...cast is headed by Eric Martin as Jack Point, and he is superb. With his pale, drawn, expressive face he makes a sad jester, but a funny one, so that his transition from comedy to pathos occasions no jolt, because both elements are in the character from the beginning. His movements are compact of nimbleness, and he can sing...