Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prized for leather and bindings. . . ." Pointing an accusing finger at Philosopher Alfred Rosenberg, Reichsbank President Walter Funk, Labor Boss Fritz Sauckel and Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, the witness said that they had visited Dachau concentration camp, and had watched its atrocity show. (The four in the dock sat bolt upright, clenching the rail before them...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes (Roger John Brownlow Keyes), 73, doughty, fire-&-ice British naval hero of the famed World War I raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend, organizer of World War II's "butcher-and-bolt" Commandos (his son, Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Keyes, was killed in a Commando raid on Rommel's African HQ); of cardiac asthma; at his estate in Buckingham...
...year's most minatory realities. But their reflection in books fell somewhat short of the total original. Among the most provocative were: Henry A. Wallace's Sixty Million Jobs, the Secretary of Commerce's pat prescription for the more abundant life, 1945-style; Charles G. Bolté's The New Veteran (what war has made of the uniformed American and what he hopes to make of himself and others hope to make of him in peace); Up Front, soldier-cartoonist Bill Mauldin's grimly amusing picturization (with sardonic matching text) of the fact that heroes...
Grey, sad-eyed Major General Leslie R. Groves, who supervised development of the atomic bomb, has a symbolic shoulder patch: a question mark with a star, an atom, and a bolt of lightning. Last week when he appeared before the Senate's Atomic Energy Committee, the emphasis was on the question mark...
Asked what the vestry of St. James' would do about the Bishop's bolt from the blue, Senior Warden Edmund Pendleton Rogers said: "I certainly think the vestry wouldn't go against Bishop Manning." Vestryman-elect Elliott Roosevelt (who had not asked to be a vestryman) said nothing...