Word: jolt
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...help it and they can't help it. We come to the desert and we bring along radios and washing machines and cars and Lord knows what, and we give a shocking jolt to a culture that was sustained for centuries by dates and camels and faith in Allah. We didn't come here to manufacture a nation of imitation Americans, but it happens whether you like it or not. The trouble is, the imitation is neither American nor Saudi...
...unit to express the force of one G (the acceleration of gravity) acting on a body for one second. At Holloman Air Development Center, New Mexico, where men are exposed to Gs for experimental purposes, the experimenters got in the habit of calling the needed unit a "jerk" or "jolt." A man who had taken four Gs for 20 seconds, for instance, was said to have taken 80 jolts...
...Baltimore, viewers of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen's Life Is Worth Living got a jolt when the bishop asked the rhetorical question: "Will the Communists find Christ on the Cross?" and, without any change in the picture, a soprano voice answered loud and clear: "Of course not!" Embarrassed executives of station WAAM explained that a technician had pulled a switch at the wrong moment, cutting off the audio portion of the bishop's Du Mont show and letting in a vagrant sentence from Corliss Archer...
When Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright casually told a reporter last January that the Senate Banking and Currency Committee might look into the booming stock market, he got a rude jolt. As the news hit the wires, stock prices were falling. Hurriedly, the Senator, scared by the political effect of a market break, called in the press. What he had in mind, said Fulbright, was no punitive probe like the 1932-34 Pecora investigation (when a circus pressagent popped a midget on J. P. Morgan's knee). Instead, Fulbright was planning "a friendly study...
...When her creatures eventually go their own ways, she has nothing left, not even God, "who gets all the credit for our good deeds, while we are credited only with the bad." By the time she dies, she has not accomplished much, but she has given her friends a jolt by exposing briefly their crimped personalities and petty goals...