Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midafternoon, the hottest part of the day, and the world seemed made of glaring dust and prickly sweat. The men of the Biafran 55th Battalion were a motley group, mostly barefoot, lacking uniforms, and so short of weapons that a single bolt-action rifle served two or even three men. They had taken up positions around Umuneke in the thick, bone-dry bush. A blocking party had infiltrated the rear of the village and set up the homemade electrically detonated mines the soldiers call Ojukwu's kettles. The strategy was simplicity itself: drive the Nigerians back onto the mines...
...have only fear. Scared to walk on the streets of Cambridge, afraid to drive in Roxbury, frightened by the news of violent acts, the response of people is to shutter the windows, bolt the door, and scream for more police protection...
...Grignetti (Bolt, Beranek, & Newman...
...professional ballplayers are relative newcomers to this sort of labor dispute. While the association leaders argued, its members were hardly demonstrating true trade-union solidarity. Last week, torn between duty to teammates and job security, a few began to bolt. Catcher Jerry Grote, for instance, said that he backed the boycott but, since he had signed his contract with the New York Mets "some time ago," he felt it only proper that he should report to training camp. "If it had been any one of the 23 other teams," he quickly added, "I wouldn't have signed. But this...
Those days, when a fighter did not have to go to a neutral corner after a knockdown, are over. Willard did not have a chance, and for the remainder of his life he bitterly accused Dempsey of carrying "a bolt" or "chunks of cement" in his gloves. In all, Willard scored 20 knockouts in 36 fights. If he was not a truly legendary champion, it was perhaps because he lacked one essential ingredient. As he once said: "I never wanted to hurt anybody...