Word: bolte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...transformer bolt was installed in the courtyard outside Hurlbut, to be used by radio station WHRB when it moves into the newly renovated basement of Pennypacker Hall sometime this year...
...bawdry of the original style. In a further attempt to evoke antique comedy, or at least its descendants in vaudeville and burlesque, Hall interpolates music, dance and choral antics. The most modern moment has James remove her mask to confront the audience about global tolerance of violence. Translator Ranjit Bolt, who also worked with Hall in Tartuffe, displays equal sensitivity to Aristophanes' world and to contemporary parallels in, say, Bosnia...
...budget, Clinton once more faced a mini-revolt by a group of 40 moderate Democrats, led by Congressman Charles Stenholm of Texas, who demanded a stiff cap on entitlement spending to keep the deficit under control. Liberals, led by members of the black and Hispanic caucuses, promised to bolt if Clinton gave the moderates an inch. Round-the- clock talks between the two camps were helping Clinton maintain a shaky majority in the House. But at one point last Tuesday afternoon, Stenholm suffered an attack of cold feet, and the talks broke down...
...take a final exam without having attended any of the classes. These are nasty but tolerable, given the alternative. An author's worst dream is to be accused of plagiarism, of stealing ideas and language from someone else and parading them as original. This charge is a lightning bolt to the bole of a writer's reason for being -- the task of adding to, as opposed to filching from, the sum total of human wisdom, knowledge or expressiveness. It has the additional disadvantage of being monstrously hard to refute, even when it is false...
...Kanemaru scandal has shaken the Liberal Democratic Party as none before. Some popular younger figures are threatening to bolt and form a new party; last week Tsutomu Hata even rejected an offer to become Foreign Minister in order to maintain his freedom of action. Some analysts think a new party might win as many as 40 seats in Diet elections that must be held by next February, possibly costing the Liberal Democrats their majority...