Word: bolt
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...There's a good political reason for issuing the latest alert, and to keep repeating them. The FBI and CIA were caught flat-footed by the Sept. 11 attack. The hijackings were a bolt-out-of-the-blue strike. And there will be another attack, again a bolt out of the blue. Everyone is sure of that. So count on both agencies to sound the alarm at the slightest provocation, so no one can say they didn't warn us ahead of time...
...unprotected interface with these ill-intentioned download sites? Certainly this irresponsible behavior is not a means to some kind of useful end; after you initially polluted your computer with Free Cell or College Jeopardy, how many times did you actually play it? Methinks not enough to justify the lightning bolt that blazes in your icon tray every time Mntaindew69 signs on from his first period homeroom...
...upon. “It wasn’t until we got the title that the look of the project really came together,” says Bastian. And a nest is exactly what the project will look like. A series of nylon ropes will be suspended from a bolt in the roof of the Holyoke Center, and from these ropes, a bed or “nest” of woven screen and rope will be hung. This nest will contain large-scale models of objects found in homes, such as watches, keys, a phone and a chair, that...
...members, the Air Line Pilots Association recommended new measures to deal with any terrorist threat--depressurizing the aircraft or making drastic maneuvers to keep hijackers off balance; protecting the cockpit at all costs, regardless of what is happening in the rest of the plane; installing a dead bolt on the otherwise flimsy cabin door and eventually developing an impenetrable, high-tech portal that can still open in the event of an accident; and using an emergency crash ax if necessary as a "potential defensive weapon...
...them does. Last May, Nevada's Democratic Senator Harry Reid succeeded in persuading Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords to bolt the Republican Party. Jeffords' switch gave Democrats control of the Senate--and promoted Reid from minority to majority whip, a perch he is currently trying to use to block the Bush Administration from putting the nuclear dump in his state. "This is wrong what they're trying to do," insists Reid. Last May, majority leader Tom Daschle flew to Las Vegas to speak at a fund raiser for Reid. "As long as we're in the majority," Daschle vowed, "[the Yucca...