Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actor. That's my bloody business. I'm the hardest working actor I know." And he knows quite a few. Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Claude Rains and Arthur Kennedy play supporting roles to his T.E. Lawrence in a script written by Robert Bolt (A Man for All Seasons) and directed by David Lean (The Bridge on the River Kwai). All agree that Peter O'Toole is as good as he seems to think he is. "If I wasn't sure I could deliver the bloody goods, I would get off the bloody...
Arkansas' Senator John McClellan reached out his left hand, grabbed the long-barreled, bolt-action Remington .22 rifle at the balance, stretched a long, bony finger to the trigger, and poked the muzzle doubtfully into his belly. With that vivid gesture, Investigations Subcommittee Chairman McClellan last week voiced his conviction that the death, in June 1961, of Henry Marshall-a Texas cotton-program specialist for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service whose jurisdiction included Billie Sol Estes' cotton dealings-was murder. Said the Senator sternly: "I don't think it takes many deductions to reach the irrevocable...
...grand jury in Franklin, Texas, was discharged after five fruitless weeks of investigating the 1961 shooting of Agriculture Department Official Henry H. Marshall, who had been investigating some of Estes' manipulations. Although Marshall was shot five times by a bolt-action rifle, the grand jury said the evidence it had heard was "inconclusive to substantiate a different decision at this time or to override any decision heretofore made." That meant, improbable as it might seem, that the suicide finding by a local justice of the peace would stand...
...Major David Bolté, 36, who serves on the headquarters staff of General Paul Harkins, U.S. commander in South Viet Nam. Father: General (ret.) Charles Bolté, commander of the U.S. 34th Infantry Division in its sweep through Northern Italy during World War II (two uncles are generals...
...Seasons, by Robert Bolt. This New York Drama Critics Circle prize foreign play might have taken its theme from Shakespeare's line, "Every subject's duty is the King's, but every subject's soul is his own." Paul Scofield matchlessly exemplifies the subject, Sir Thomas More...