Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just returned from the restrictions of probation, Jack Breuner will undoubtedly see action for the home team, since he was originally the starting center. Other reserves who should get in are Ted Bassett, Neil Currie, Charlie Hunt, Buck Bradley, Bolt Elwell, and Bill Mayer...
...climax in Russia (see col. 3). They witnessed a terror in France (see p. 24). They got a new campaign in Iran (see below). As had been the case at every period of imminence, misleading rumors lit up the hot countries, like sheet lightning which has no real bolt: Was the Dnieper Dam blown up? Were the Germans making armored sleighs for winter warfare in Russia? Or was the report merely a trick to lull the London-Washington Axis? Did the Americans intend to concentrate bombers against Japan at Vladivostok? Leaders spoke: Franklin Roosevelt talked a good...
...eighty-fifth year. I have shot my bolt, I have done my work. War or no war, my number is up. . . . When I was a little boy . . . I saw in the newspaper every day a column headed 'The Civil War in America.' . . . When I grew up they told me that that war . . . had abolished black slavery, so . . . I determined to devote my life as far as I could to the abolition of white slavery. . . . Look after my plays and look after my films. They are all devoted to the abolition of that sort of slavery." Although this thesis...
...putting together the bits of this argument Miss Boothe leaned further and further forward until the final sentence found her sitting bolt upright on the edge of her chair. She reached down for another cigarette, lit it and continued...
General Philip Neame, an engineering expert famous for a day at Neuve Chapelle in 1914 when he stood bolt upright on a parapet for 20 minutes, lighting the fuses of improvised jam-tin bombs with a cigaret and lobbing the bombs at the Germans. Also captured last week after a tank fight at the outpost of el-Mechili were Major General Michael Denham Gambier-Parry, tank strategist, and 2,000 men. Also captured in Libya, apparently while flying out to Egypt from Britain via Gibraltar and Malta, was Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, who unhappily commanded British troops...