Word: bolt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bolt position in the center of their line, the Japs had the ancient citadel of Shuri, visited by Commodore Perry in 1853. In Shuri castle, biggest and stoutest structure on the island, the Ryukyu kings had lived before the Japs took over, a quarter-century after Perry's visit. Last week a U.S. battleship scored 25 direct hits on the castle, but the shells bounced off, said an observer, like "rubber balls...
...Italy, the heaviest Allied offensive of 1945 won Bologna, the great German bolt position guarding the Poplain (see below). There now seemed no hope for the Nazis to hold anywhere short of the Alps...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes was a doctor. But not many know or remember that John Keats, Oliver Goldsmith, Friedrich Schiller, Tobias Smollett, George Crabbe, Robert Bridges, Francis Thompson, and Lieut. Colonel John McCrae (In Flanders Fields) were also medical men. So was Thomas Dunn English, the man who wrote Ben Bolt. Most of these writers were doctors only incidentally, and almost none of their poems in the anthology refer to medicine (exception: Holmes's The Morning Visit...
...dramatic, lightning-bolt personnel changes should strike the Administration in the next few weeks, most of Washington would be vastly surprised. Term IV orators had campaigned strenuously on the theme of keeping a war-winning "team" in office. And continuity remained the New Deal keynote. The Old Faces were staying. Political observers saw a clear pattern for the future in the President's efforts to hold the old team together. War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes was persuaded to stay until Germany falls; so were Chairman William H. Davis and two associates...
Rundstedt Retreat. Tilburg, 's Hertogenbosch, Breda, Roosendaal and Bergen op Zoom were the bolt positions in the German line from the Maas to the Scheldt estuary. All five had fallen this week without much of a fight. Allied airmen reported columns of German transports scuttling north to the rivers...