Word: bolted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like a bolt of lightning, the debate in the British Parliament has been and gone. Aside from a fresh smell in the air, there is no visible evidence of its visit, and we are left with no better notion of the Labor Government's position than before. That Labor would receive its expected vote of confidence was apparent before the debate commenced; the only reasonable conclusion is that devaluation was not the real issue in question, but that Parliament instead had in the back of its head the impending elections...
...Beam. In Omaha, John Staskiewicz, suing Ak-Sar-Ben race-track officials, charged that the beam of light from the electric camera at the finish line caused the horse he was backing to bolt, lose the lead and finish third...
...into Moore's cars are the same (Offenhausers made by the Meyer & Drake Engineering Corp.) that are used in most other racing cars. But Master Mechanic Moore does not use them the way they come from the factory. He pulls down each engine to the last nut & bolt, polishes intake and exhaust valves, magnafluxes each part to see if any hidden defects exist. He buys the chassis, too, adding his own refinements in design...
...National Military Establishment is not worried. Group suggestibility and "vertigo" and the difficulty of judging the speed and distance of an airborne object give plenty of material for the human imagination to work on. In the case of flying saucers, it appears to have worked hard. Since no single bolt or rivet of a mysterious aircraft has yet been found, there is no reason to believe that either Russians or Martians have been tearing off on mysterious cross-country trips over...
Into the Fog. Claude threw open the door, clicked the bolt of his Mauser. In the yard a man shouted, "He's coming with the gun!" Claude fired again & again. Then, screaming, he ran into...