Word: jolt
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...young son of the late great Editor Edward Bok, grandson of the late great Publisher Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis. Three years ago this heir apparent to the soundly pro-GOP Saturday Evening Post shocked his conservative fellow citizens by stumping for the New Deal. Last week they received another jolt when smart, pretty Nellie Lee Holt Bok, onetime religious education director at Missouri's Stephens College for Women, followed her husband into Democratic ranks...
...Wood was cut by an electric saw. In the brooder house chicks were warmed in an electric incubator, while in the poultry house hens were urged to extra efforts by ultraviolet ray lamps. Hogs were kept in their wallow by an electric fence which gave them a 90-volt jolt if they touched it. An electric sprinkler system kept the cabbage patch damp...
...current in the powerful apparatus was turned off. A potential between 2,000 and 5,000 volts lurked in a condenser. From another room technicians saw a blinding flash. They rushed in to find Engineer Harry E. Lawrence, 33, University of Pittsburgh graduate, sprawled on the floor. The jolt had torn the shoes from his feet. They tried to revive him, failed...
Harvard's hockey hopes received their third successive jolt yesterday when it developed that the injuries received in the Princeton tussle had temporally deprived the Crimson of the services of its captain and two other trusty forwards...
...most typical is what he calls "changing the guard." A Finance Minister at the zenith of successful budgeting is abruptly returned to his private business, as was Count Volpi. A national hero like Atlantic-soaring Italo Balbo is swept off to rule an African province. Last week such a jolt came even to one of the "Four Men," the original Quadrumvirs who led the March on Rome while Mussolini gave orders from 400 miles away in Milan...