Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what a sprint! Racing against the clock for points, the autos roll up one by one to the starting gate, pause until a red light flashes green, then bolt off, engines screaming and rear ends smoking as the tires burn under the tremendous torque. The course, usually four to 14 miles long, runs up steep country roads, contains no fewer than 15 curves, and its straightaways are no longer than 200 yds. Yet the cars average 69 m.p.h., occasionally even top 125 m.p.h. Most drivers try to "straighten the curves" by skidding around the corner in a controlled four-wheel...
...presbytery." Already, members of churches in Pittsburgh, Peoria and San Jose, Calif., have gone on record as opposing the Confession in its present form. In Seattle, the Rev. David Brittain of Foster-Tukwila Presbyterian Church fears that one-fourth of the city's 30,000 Presbyterians might ultimately bolt because of the new creed. The Rev. Edward Stimson, pastor of Omaha's Dundee Presbyterian Church and leader of the opposition to the Confession at the General Assembly, claims to have received letters of support from 250 ministers...
...weightlessness, without gravity to anchor the man, an astronaut attempting to put together a space station while in orbit could not hope to use anything as simple as the big wrench with which a car driver changes tires. Every time he tried to exert pressure on nut or bolt, he would turn in the opposite direction. Martin's new tool, which will be tested on later Gemini flights, is designed to eliminate such reaction almost entirely. The spaceman's wrench, 10½ in. long, 9 in. high and 5 in. wide across the motor housing, has a built...
...each other with undisguised loathing. "Commissar Pak, if you have any legitimate business to bring before this meeting, I suggest you get on with it," began U.S. Major General William P. Yarborough, representing the United Nations Command. Major General Pak Chung Kuk waited impassively for the translation, then sat bolt upright and snarled back: "Your side must stop aggravating tension. Your slanders against our side only remind us of a mad dog baying at the moon...
...first Red lightning bolt struck...