Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Integration and flow were last week being worked out swiftly at Rouge. But human hands were needed to sort out, punch, weld, rivet, bolt, assemble. If there was a strike, human hands would close into fists, and sorting, bolting, assembling would cease...
...conclusion is inescapable that Mr. Ingersoll was more concerned with making a good news story than reporting facts. Apparently he intended to show that Hitler had shot his bolt; and failed, that the English had taken the worst Hitler could offer, and survived. It would be nice to believe this, but apparently we would just be kidding ourselves...
...short on frock-coat portraits and winsome nymphs (exceptions: Simon Moselsio's sloe-eyed Nude, John B. Flannagan's dreamy bronze Mother and Child-see cuts). None of the pieces showed any recognizable relation to the U. S. scene. Most abstract of all were: 1) a nut-&-bolt portrait by David Smith, virtuoso in scrap iron (TIME, Nov. 18); 2) a jittery, swaying mobile made out of fence wire and iron by U. S. Mobilist Alexander ("Sandy") Calder. Most arresting exhibit: a crawling, sluglike, headless, armless and legless female form in plaster with three hips, two breasts...
Like the newspaper series from which it was compiled, Ingersoll's book shoots most of its news bolt in the beginning. Its best quality is its wide-eyed observation of ordinary details: how it feels to wait in line for a food-rations book, how London's balloon barrage looks from the ground (". . . all the balloons point in the same direction, as cows do in a field on a windy...
After five lean games, a blocking touch finally came to Dick Harlow's touchdown-hungry gridders--almost like a bolt out of the blue. And they intend to give that bolt right back to the Blue tomorrow afternoon in the Yale Bowl before 45,000 spectators...