Word: bolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the North, in response to these moans among the magnolias, came rapid assurance that Liberal Democrats no longer cared a Yankee damn about Southern salvation. National Chairman Butler lightly dismissed threats of a Southern bolt; said he: "The balance of power is moving towards the Pacific." Said Illinois Liberal Paul Douglas of a third party: "I would welcome it. It would mean getting the Dixiecrats out of our party...
...know who the candidate will be, but I have every conviction . . . that it will not be me." But though Democrat Johnson insisted he was "not leaving the door open for any last-minute changes in attitude," one thing was clear. He had not yet thrown the bolt...
...when the syth National Open golf tournament had barely begun. Bantam Ben Hogan, bent on winning for the fifth time, lost out before he got to the first tee at Toledo's Inverness Club; his back and chest had him in too much pain to swing. Veteran Tommy Bolt sprayed his shots so badly that he quit after only four holes of the second round...
...together''). At the last chords, they were five minutes over their scheduled time. "Late as usual," said Franz Allers, as everyone started for the door. "Thank you. Maestro," said a baritone, stuffing his score into a coat pocket. They rushed out together to bolt a sandwich before turning their attention from Puccini's Montmartre to Edwardian London and ''O, wouldn't it be loverly...
...Eero Saarinen's new chairs and tables there are just three parts: top, stem and bolt. Says Saarinen: "All the great furniture of the past, from Tutankhamen's chair to Thomas Chippendale's, has always been a structural total. I wanted to make the chair all one thing again...