Word: bolted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rebellion was led by four former Labor Cabinet ministers who put their careers on the line in order to spotlight their deep dismay at the increasing power of the far left in the Labor Party. The first to bolt was Shirley Williams, former Education Secretary and for years one of Labor's most popular front benchers. She resigned last month from the Labor national executive committee, declaring pointedly that "the party I loved and worked for no longer exists." She was followed by Owen, former Transportation Minister William Rodgers, and onetime Deputy Party Leader and Home Secretary Roy Jenkins...
Labor's right-wingers threaten to bolt the party...
...Nickerson of Bolt, Baranek and Newman, a Cambridge consulting firm that will also work on the project, yesterday emphasized the experimental nature of the project, but also said he is optimistic. "The literacy rate in Venezuela is quite high, relative to other Latin American countries, and is rising quickly. This is a good sign," he said...
...would say, like a return of the '40s look. Jerry Rubin, Yippie leader back in the '60s, turns up now on Wall Street as well-dressed broker. The designer Betsey Johnson, a woman who previously went around with her hair dyed pink or green and a lightning bolt tattooed above her left breast, is now being seen wearing a simple little black dress...
...attract the wrath of three highly intoxicated Cambridge gentlemen, but for being on the same street with them. This incident would seem to indicate that Cambridge is not really a safe place for anyone to stroll casually unprepared and without thinking. It is not quite time, I hope, to bolt and barricade our doors, but we all must accept and deal with the facts that no one is immune to irrational hoodlum violence and that Harvard square has at least its share of hoodlums. My friend and I were not badly hurt. The men were unarmed. We were very lucky...