Word: bolte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major attempt at standardization failed. Britain went ahead with plans to replace her old .303-caL, bolt-action Lee-Enfield rifle, which dates back, to the Boer War, with a lighter, faster, .280-cal. automatic model. U.S. experts had hoped the British would adopt a -3O-cal. weapon capable of firing the same ammunition as the U.S. Garand...
...creeps into these volumes comes at the end, after Roosevelt had been elected Vice President. He wrote sadly: "The Vice President has no power and is really a fifth wheel to the coach. Also remember that it is not a stepping stone to anything except oblivion. I fear my bolt is shot...
...staff, he worked closely and well with a U.S. military mission. Today, Iran has a gendarmery of 20,000 and a conscript army of 130,000 scattered across the land to maintain internal security. Its stubby, wiry infantrymen wear U.S. uniforms or British battle dress, carry old U.S. bolt-action rifles. The government has bought $26 million worth of surplus U.S. military stocks, mainly M-24 tanks, light artillery and trucks. The two air brigades fly ancient British Audax and Hawker Hurricane fighters, plus a few P-47s. A tiny navy patrols along the Caspian and the Persian Gulf...
...failure to come out for a clear-cut, honorable stand in Asia. Later, when the Chinese Communists rejected yet another U.N. cease-fire proposal (see above), Nehru let it be known that he considered their note "a counterproposal, not a rejection." Branding Communist China an aggressor, he said, would "bolt and bar the door" to further negotiations...
Despite these hesitancies, directed not against an increased rate of mobilization, but against all-out mobilization, the services were beginning to bolt together a stronger framework for defense. Last week the Pentagon...