Word: jolt
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...year. Such slow shifting does not relieve forces; it is a sign that they are increasing relentlessly. Within the last fortnight, California has had two moderate earthquakes, with many lesser shocks following them. Richter does not know whether they are warning forerunners of a really big jolt. But he and his colleagues feel that the San Andreas Fault has been quiet so long that it cannot be trusted much longer...
These sharp questions were asked last week by Kenneth C. Royall, chairman of the New York State Committee on Education and onetime Secretary of the Army (1947-49). What Royall said next was a severe jolt to the 800 citizens gathered in Manhattan for the state conference, a prelude to the White House Conference on Education which begins in Washington Nov. 28 (TIME, Sept. 12). The stock solution for the schools' problems is to make them bigger and better. Royall's advice: contract the educational system...
...film is callow where it should be young, and supported by dogged energy rather than a bubbling gaiety. In mid-film, Jack Lemmon adds some bracing laughter to the show with a slapstick attempted seduction of Betty Garrett. In this scene, it is as if someone put a jolt of fine brandy into a pot of Pablum. But once Lemmon is gone, Eileen grinds on with its predictable succession of songs and dances...
...Colonel Stapp was subjected to more than 40 times the pull of gravity (40 gs); his normal weight of 168 ½ lbs. momentarily shot up to 6,740 lbs. The driver of an ordinary automobile colliding with a brick wall at 50 m.p.h. would be taking much the same jolt-yet Stapp survived it with negligible injuries...
Movie fans with fading memories of a freckle-faced little girl got a jolt when onetime Cinemoppet Margaret {Journey for Margaret} O'Brien, 18, winner of a special 1944 Academy Award (as the year's best all-round child actress), marched up and got a diploma from Los Angeles' University High School...