Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profile especially delicate. He wears his greying, thinning hair brushed back without a part. Joyce reads and writes sprawling in bed or on a couch but he does not like it known. He is very formal in public, in restaurants prefers straight-back chairs in which he sits bolt upright...
...elections. Unexpectedly they turned thumbs down on Leader Gandhi's man, re-elected Leftist Bose, by a vote of 1,575-to-1,376. Saint Gandhi took his defeat hard. He charged fraud, claimed the Congress was fast becoming a "corrupt organization" and intimated that his supporters might bolt the Congress organization. The Mahatma himself is not a dues-paying member of Congress. To President Bose his re-election was simply a victory for anti-federation...
...heavy bolt of lightning hit the Washington Monument. But nobody in the neighborhood heard any clap of thunder. The occurrence was recorded by the National Bureau of Standards as a bolt of thunderless lightning...
Less fortunate were a trio of Italian alpinists who were killed last week when a shower of rocks released by a lightning bolt swept them, off a &650-ft. cliff on the south wall of Mt. Marmolata in the Dolomites...
...Hoboes of America, Inc. and the International Itinerant Workers Union. The occasion: his coronation as king of the League of Hoboes of the World. Soon after the crown, conceived from the top of a coal-burning stove, had been placed on his head, said King Jeff: "This has a bolt inside, and it's starting to puncture my scalp...