Word: joltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last spring, Ike Eisenhower told Congress that Alaskan defenses were in no shape to meet the potentialities of war. Kepner, for all of his awareness of what his command lacks, professes not to be so gloomy. "If the enemy invades, we'll hand him quite a jolt," he says laconically...
...knew it had scrawled its initials on a lot of North Atlantic Treaty rearmament programs, but last week, with a jolt, it discovered what some of the bill was going to look like. In the next year alone, the State Department indicated, France will get some $2 billion in arms and equipment. That figure was twice as much as the U.S. had paid for four of its past wars* put together. But it was only the beginning: eventually France would get about $6 billion...
...announcement by Oilman James Wymore of Salina, Kans. gave shock-resistant Hollywood a jolt: his daughter, Cinestarlet Patrice, 23, was going to marry her leading man Errol Flynn, 41, who has been saying for quite a while that he would marry Rumanian Princess Irene ("The Geek") Ghica, 20. Flynn, now in the midst of a court squabble over alimony payments to first wife Lili Damita, had a characteristically playful comment to make on Patrice, who is very nearsighted: "All I'll have to do is hide her glasses and she'll never be able to find...
Lloyd Clark had been headmaster of Kiskiminetas Springs School in Saltsburg, Pa. for only a few months when he got the jolt. It came in a casual conversation with Cornell's President Edmund Day at the Kiski-Cornell freshmen football game...
...belonging to Winston Churchill, won first prize (?10) at the Kent county agricultural show. Later in the week Winnie proved his luck again when the express train he was riding in plowed into a loaded hay elevator at 76 m.p.h., gave him and the other passengers only a momentary jolt...