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...insure the lives of soldiers & sailors fighting in the Civil War, was still getting organized when the Union Army lost 17,287 men at the battle of Chancellorsville. Result: the company collapsed. It reorganized the following year, changed its name to Metropolitan in 1868. It got another bad jolt in the 1918 flu epidemic, when at the peak of the disaster, more than 5,000 claims a day were trundled into Metropolitan's home office, loaded in huge wicker baskets. Metropolitan paid 68,000 death claims...
Every writer's urge, he holds, is sprung by some jolt at weaning time; the adult writer's flow of words is a psychological substitute for the flow of milk he wanted and did not get, plus a recompense for all the guilt he has subconsciously felt since his diaper days. Once the analyst has worked the anxious writer back to the point where he can endorse mother's product without fear, shame or remorse, it's simply a matter of putting a fresh sheet of paper into the machine and hitting the keys...
Cherington expressed the opinion that the column was not directed against him, but was meant to incriminate the members of the Commission by their association with him. The headline of the column read: "Democratic Rank and File Might Get Jolt If They Knew Company Leaders Keeping...
...radioactive isotope of hydrogen which was discussed guardedly in the latest report of the Atomic Energy Commission. The nucleus of tritium has one proton and two neutrons. When it is struck by a highspeed proton (a nucleus of ordinary hydrogen), the two combine into helium and yield a great jolt of energy (see chart...
...average Briton is likely to assume that the government at the wheel must be to blame for these recurring jolts. But then his memory of each jolt tends to fade quickly as soon as the road gets smoother. The task of the Conservatives in this election is to make vivid recall of these crises to show, if they can, that they were blunders characteristic of Labor's rule...