Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gate-of-Heavenly-Peace Square, at the gates to the Forbidden City of the Manchus, where Mao now dwells in palatial simplicity, the army had laid a new roadway strong enough to sustain the crunch of parading Red tanks. Red bunting had been distributed to citizens by the bolt-even the coolies' rickshaws were red-draped. A band of 700 musicians played the new song, The East Is Red, the Sun Is Rising; schoolchildren released thousands of peace doves, which napped out of sight while for six hours the products of peace trod by: paratroopers, light and heavy tanks...
...Eddie Stanky) was as genuine as a Spalding label. So were his cleated shoes, his tilted cap and his shambling, plate-bound walk. It was hard not to believe he was some weathered stray from the Polo Grounds who would presently wheel, find himself in the wrong park, and bolt for the dugout...
...William Faulkner. Yet Mississippi Novelist Faulkner can claim more roots than rooters in the U.S. One reason: his explosive Southern fables are sometimes hooked to devious verbal fuses that leave the average reader weary or wondering. When he wants to, Faulkner can also be as direct as a bolt of summer lightning. Requiem for a Nun is a tantalizing blend of both Faulkners. It rates a middle pass on a fictional report card starred with such finer achievements...
...Allied officers (and a Yugoslav) watched intently one day last week on Salisbury Plain as Britain demonstrated her prize new .280-cal. rifle. More than simple curiosity was involved: this is the weapon with which Britain hopes to equip not only her own infantrymen (who have been using the bolt-action, single-shot .303-cal. Lee-Enfield since the South African War), but all the North Atlantic Treaty nations. Disagreement over it caused a hitch at the recent small-arms conference in Washington, where Britain's Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell argued...
White Flowers & Dyed Paper. One day last week the G.I.s and the workers of Andong tightened their last bolt. The laborers swept the bridge and the Andong fire department gave it a good hosing down. The bridge railings were festooned with strips of G.I. toilet paper dyed red, white & blue. On a wooden platform near the Andong end of the bridge sat Engineer Tandy and local dignitaries, including indefatigable County Chieftain Lee. Behind the wooden platform sat the G.I. engineers and their Korean fellow workers, each wearing in the buttonhole of his fatigue shirt the day's badge...