Word: bolte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haunting. A young woman in a filmy nightie sits bolt upright in bed. Bump. Bump. BUMP. BUMP. The noise comes from the corridor outside her room. Huge feet run past, run back, stop at the bedroom door. Silence. Something is listening. The young woman stares in alarm. Then softly a big body rubs against the door and at the crack beneath it snuffles a gigantic spectral snout. The young woman clutches her throat and-BANG! BANG! BANG...
...with the increasing complexity and costliness of doing business. Small manufacturers-who are not as diversified or as well-financed as the large companies-tend to find themselves squeezed for profits, short on capital, and without enough technical talent. Says President Matthew Meyers of Los Angeles' Alvo Nut & Bolt Co.: "We're paying more to make the product itself; yet because of competition, we are selling it for less and less...
...sounds of that city as did Vittore Carpaccio. He obviously loved Venice's busy canals, its processions and pageantry, its fairy-tale architecture-almost every aspect of the place, in fact, down to the brightness of its gondoliers' jerkins and the workmanship of a beautifully wrought bolt on a door. Last week Venice returned the compliment by opening in the Doge's Palace the biggest Carpaccio exhibition ever held (see color...
...ordered his Congressmen-elect to renounce their seats, disguised himself as an Indian and raced off to the rebellion-prone city of Arequipa to throw up revolutionary barricades-an erratic performance that caused many moderates to question his sense of responsibility and prompted 34 of his Congressmen to bolt the party...
...Daunsers presented one form of religiosity, that of intellectual pretentiousness; Pelagia displays a quite different one, the Christianity of Main Street. But while the Daunsers had real dramatic power, Pelagia had no such compensation. An intelligent listener will bolt from it in disgust and, if he is a Christian, with near anger...