Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coverage. In Tulsa, a bolt of lightning struck near the Walter Grubb house, gave Mrs. Grubb a shock; a mile to the west, a bolt of lightning struck a telephone pole, narrowly missed Son Lloyd Grubb; seven miles from Tulsa, a bolt of lightning struck near Father Walter Grubb, gave him a shock...
Butcher and Bolt. It was Winston Churchill who gave Britain's Commandos their name.- After Dunkirk, when these special units were first formed, Churchill remembered his Boer War days and the Boer Commandos: irregular, ill-trained, but well-equipped bands of 300 to 400 Boers, with less regard for the niceties of war than for ambushing and killing British soldiers...
...formed and trained the first Commandos in Scotland. His men were to be simply raiders. Their job was to shake Nazi morale, collect information, do what damage they could, and give Britons something to cheer about. Soon the Commandos had a phrase to describe their task: "butcher and bolt...
Blitz. Near Elbow Lake, Minn., a bolt of lightning tore through the roof of a schoolhouse, sent a splinter through a globe of the world. The splinter neatly removed Japan, left the rest of the globe intact...
...over. It was merely another indication, like the torpedoings in the St. Lawrence, that those with common interests would stand or fall together in World War II. The dwindling number of French-Canadian M.P.'s (reduced from over 40 to 13) who openly proclaimed that they would bolt the Liberal Party in a conscription showdown gave hope that the Quebecois' sound common sense was mak-ing him at last aware that Hitler, not his fellow Canadian, was his enemy...