Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government is going to pile part of its vast stocks of surplus war materials up neatly in open spaces, throw a framework of wood or steel around the piles and then bolt corrugated sheet metal around the frames...
This week the pent-up bolt of Allied power struck. A thunderous preparation by 1,000 bombing planes shook the earth for miles around a new sector northeast of Aachen. Behind the bombardment - and a rolling barrage by 10-inch guns - the battle-seasoned U.S. First hurdled a small river, moved forward toward Cologne. The Germans backed stubbornly, foot by foot, before them...
Only seven weeks ago C.E.D.'s tax proposals might have hit like a bolt from the blue. For the plan asserts that the Federal Government must rely mainly on individual-not corporate-income taxes for the minimum $16 to $18 billion of revenue needed in the first peacetime year. But Economist Beardsley Ruml had scooped C.E.D.-the Falstaffian treasurer of R. H. Macy & Co. had bluntly said it first in July (TIME, Aug. 7). Ruml had also stated that high corporate taxes were more harmful to employment than high individual levies. But C.E.D. did not care that a little...
Rumania's bolt from the losing side jolted other satellite fence-sitters: ¶Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Parvan Draganov publicly repeated Premier Ivan Bagrianoffs recent peace bid (TIME, Aug. 28). Through emissaries in Istanbul, Sofia notified London and Washington that it was ready to surrender. Probable terms: withdrawal of Bulgarian troops in Greece and Yugoslavia, disarming of the few German troops still in Bulgaria. ¶Hungary's astute Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy, dissolved all political parties (the only undissolved parties in Hungary are pro-Nazi), called an emergency cabinet meeting, received an emergency visitor from the Reich...
...late. For Tom Dewey's men were not calling but receiving. Harold Stassen's men sat dutifully and dourly around hotel lobbies, just in case a freak bolt of lightning should strike. John Bricker fought on, he spoke his familiar views with familiar vigor at a jampacked press conference, provided the only good bar for thirsty newsmen. His managers buttonholed and cajoled tirelessly. But hoopla was not enough in Chicago in June 1944. The Dewey nomination rolled...