Word: bolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Dr. Wilson slammed the door, he did not bolt it. "We are hoping," he went on, "to modify the Salk vaccine in such a way that the highly virulent strains of which it is composed [meaning especially the Mahoney strain] will be replaced by less virulent strains...
Prescience. In San Antonio, after predicting local thunderstorms, Weather Forecaster Milton Rudd went atop the weather station to check instrument readings, was knocked flat by a bolt of lightning...
...disadvantages of worshiping a living god is that he may bolt. This is what his supremely exalted omnipotence, Tibet's Dalai Lama, did when he heard that the Red Chinese army was approaching his capital in 1950. Persuaded to return, he found that the Communists had brought with them a rival deity, the Panchen Lama. Last summer both Lamas journeyed to Peking to attend the First National People's Congress (TIME. Sept. 27). At a cocktail party a visiting British newsman met the Dalai Lama, wearing a saffron robe and a large collection of fountain pens, and asked...
...short holes and trick clubs turns just a little sour. Souchak's scores would look good on a pitch-and-putt course. Even in the tournaments he has not won, his cards have kept him in contention with such seasoned campaigners as onetime Amateur Champion Gene Littler, Tommy Bolt and U.S. Open Champion Ed Furgol. With only four more tournaments to go, Mike has finished in the money often enough that, barring a complete collapse, he is almost certain to earn an invitation to the Masters...
Strator, who had successfully interested and trained several friends, then fell across Dick Corbeil, who has already won his "brown bolt"--symbol of second-highest achievement in judo. Last spring and fall, Corbeil, Strater, and a half-dozen friends worked out in the I.A.B., and this year, they have University permission to do so officially...