Word: jolt
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...summer again, Jocelyn had been sent off to Women's Prison, and Amy had a new girl friend, Hortense. The two girls dropped in on friends who were having a heroin party. "We said we didn't want to jolt, but . . . you know how it is when a lot of kids are around; they all started to laugh ... I didn't have the money to buy a cap [shot] with. Danny said he'd give me one; he said it real quick. That's what they always do, any hype that wants...
Britain's five-month-old Tory government got a painful jolt from the voters last week. In a struggle for control of the world's most powerful local-government body-London's huge County Council-Socialist candidates ousted 26 Tories and one Liberal, rolled up a huge Labor majority: 92 seats to 37. Cried Herbert Morrison, onetime cockney errand boy who became Socialist boss of London and then his country's Foreign Secretary: "Thank you, London...
...England. You can't help feeling sorry for the man. The Princess inspected us too, when she was in uniform herself. She just walked down the line in those god-awful brown stockings, just as big as life, and now she's Queen. It sure is a jolt...
...Quiet Man. Millions of other U.S. citizens felt a jolt, too, at the unexpected news that death had come to George VI, the quiet man who brightened the Crown tarnished by Edward VIII's abdication. Tens of thousands of Americans like Gas Station Attendant Jack Greagor had served in Britain as soldiers and bluejackets; tens of thousands more had visited the British Isles as tourists in the years since. But even those Americans who had never crossed the Atlantic, and never would, knew more about Britain and felt closer to the British than had any other U.S. generation...
Local hockey hopes took a had jolt yesterday when doctors reported that sophomore center Dick Clasby had sustained a broken none and bruised chest in the Dartmouth game Wednesday, and would be sidelined indefinitely. The Crimson plays Army on West Point's Smith Rink at 2 p.m. today...