Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fatally wounded fugitive hero, at large in the gnashing city like a loose bolt in a machine, is Man in the extremity of anguish and dereliction. As such, he is a quick test of the presence or absence of true charity among those with whom he collides. And among all these people, who combine with the dark city into a moral image of the modern world, very little true charity is evident...
...together to form the whirling center of a new storm. Over Abilene, Tex. the clouds turned copper with dust, while a steely blue frost wandered across the Little Big Horn. As the languid, wet air swirled above the cold, it began to generate wind, sleet, thunder and lightning. One bolt killed a woman in Wever, Iowa in the midst of a driving blizzard. At Whittemore, 230 miles away, a bridal couple was unhappily snowbound in a house with 50 wedding guests...
Voice from the Widely Bimps. When he isn't exploding all over the basketball court, Frank Keaney is a good-natured Irishman who saves old glassware as a hobby. In practice, one of his tricks is to bolt a steel rim inside the baskets, reducing their size from 18 to 15 inches; it made the basket-shooting in the actual game seem easier. While his players romp on the court, Keaney, a Phi Beta Kappa, calls to them in his own curious language, compounded of corny phrases he has coined himself, mixed with Latin or Latin-sounding words. Samples...
...have never been in any party more than 15 minutes. . . . We [liberals] are just a bunch of political prima donnas. . . . If everything doesn't go just our way, we bolt. . . . Let's not fool ourselves - we have more than 57 varieties." Despite their differences, the country's "liberals," LaGuardia thought, could pull together for "a proper economic adjustment in our country to permit people to live properly and decently." All 57 varieties of his listeners agreed. Frank King-don's National Citizens P.A.C. voted to dissolve*; so did Sculptor Jo Davidson's I.C.C.A.S.P...
Laski, always the lecturer, delivered a long harangue in answer to one question. Lord Chief Justice Goddard, who had sunk back in his chair, bored but still listening, sat bolt upright to translate to the jury. "The answer," he said, "is 'yes;' " and leaned back again...