Word: jolt
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...present the Negro (in books, newspapers, movies, texts) to the public in a fair, sober light. "The university of the arts has permitted Paul Robeson, Marian Anderson, and Roland Hayes to 'convert' many hostile persons. Jesse Owens . . . Joe Louis . . . George Washington Carver . . . have provided the first jolt to many minds steeped in stereotyped ideas...
...tank destroyer outfit and had a class on how to drive a tank and they let us try it out. . . . We would be cruising along peacefully like when all of a sudden we would be flying through the air and when we came down, what a jolt ! Now there is a difference between a tank destroyer called a T.D. and a regular tank...
Britons who rate among life's necessities the hot, soaking bath complete with whisk, sponge and loofah got a jolt last week. It came from testy, aging (78) Viscount Maugham, elder brother of Novelist W. Somerset Maugham. Said the Viscount, during a House of Lords debate on water shortage: "As pleasant as it is to have a daily bath, it is not really necessary to health. Many lads who came back from Africa had not had a bath in three months and they will tell you they were none the worse. A bath very largely is a luxury...
...argued Food ($2.75; Knopf), 239 pages of easy-to-read economics that may jolt the complacent U.S. The authors, Cornell University's crisp economist, Frank A. Pearson, professor of prices and statistics, and his ex-graduate student New York State farmer Don Paarlberg, carefully avoided the best-seller technique of sensational prophecy, a la Louis Bromfield (TIME, Feb. 14). But, with genuine alarm and deep conviction, they point to a coming food crisis...
Secret of the use of such powerful loads in a plane is the new mechanism for absorbing the recoil. Pilots say there is little effect on flight characteristics, only a thumping jolt like driving a car over a stone in the road...