Word: jolt
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Just at this ebb period in industry, the subject of poverty is especially pertinent, but a man who expects to loll leisurely in the library glancing at pictures of idiots, imbeciles, morons and thyroid sufferers will get a jolt in a very short time. Even, poverty can be prosaic, and the administration of a wel- fare society when presented with a sober lack of expression and in intricately balanced sentences does not encourage strict attention
...came as something of a jolt to the Empire last week that the King's youngest son should thus have plunged into the deep Balkans to find himself a bride...
Completely outclassed in both the singles and doubles matches, the Freshman tennis team was toppled from its undefeated pinnacle yesterday, when the Andover team drubbed them 6-3. Jimmy Fuld, Freshman star, received a severe jolt, as Foreman of Andover unexpectedly snapped his growing undefeated streak...
District Attorney Dewing may stop the trial, and Judge Brown may rule out the evidence on insanity, but in any event, the legal system is getting another big jolt. The "wheels of justice" are swiftly becoming bogged again...
...canceled the contracts. True, the President had not canceled the contracts but Washington and the world well knew that Postmaster General Farley would never have dared to sign the cancellation without the approval of his President. ¶ Besides his airmail action the President gave U. S. businessmen another jolt that made their back teeth rattle. He sent a message recommending Congress to undertake regulation of stock and commodities exchanges, a message timed to be published along with the introduction of a drastic bill (see p. 49) designed to stop all big businessmen from trading in the stock of their companies...