Word: bolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eyobélé died, and the wine was spilled. Then, as the women gathered around the dead man for the nightlong watch, a thunderstorm loomed over the village; and even before the cockerel could be beheaded, Eyobélé's prophecy was carried out. A bolt of lightning crashed into Eyobélé's hut, and a moment later nine women lay dead around the bier. Last week Bokouélé was a ghost village, in which Father Benoit Gassongo, the Roman Catholic priest and teacher, stirred among the vacant seats of the mission...
...program. But then the Stevenson partisans tripped over their own arguments by contending that the Stevenson defeat was the work of conspiring Republicans who crossed over and voted for Kefauver in an effort to destroy Stevenson, Humphrey and Freeman. If the Republicans who voted Democratic were angry enough to bolt their party on the farm issue, the same Republicans were not so loyal that they conspired to destroy the Democratic leadership...
...Democratic Convention, a civil rights plank may touch off a North-South fight so hot that Southern delegates will bolt the party. The chance that this will happen is increased by the accepted probability that Eisenhower will win whether or not the South bolts. Some Southerners may feel that 1956 is a good year to stand on "principle" and to express the vigor of their pro-segregation feelings through a third party...
...production up. Moreover, automation is most profitable in a time of full production: so much money is invested in the automated tool that a plant manager must keep it at work. In Jenkintown. Pa., for example, the Standard Pressed Steel Co. installed a $140,000 automated furnace in its bolt factory. The furnace could be operated by one man instead of five; it boosted bolt production 133% to 2,100 Ibs. hourly. But unless it kept running continuously, it was not profitable...
Birds of War. So far, official announcements about the missile program have been brief and vague. Glenn L. Martin Co. revealed recently, for instance, that it will build a $5,000,000 plant, undoubtedly for missiles, near Denver. Shortly after such bits of news are made public, a bolt of industrial lightning strikes the locality mentioned. A cornfield or patch of desert blossoms with bulldozers; roads and railroads unroll; a great, blank-looking building grows like a hard-shelled mushroom; odd and often monstrous machines arrive on flatcars and trailer-trucks. Houses are hammered together in new residential areas...