Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Panic & Fire. On a street of old brownstone houses in Brooklyn a man looked up and saw "a large bolt of lightning." In a house on Staten Island, across the Narrows from Brooklyn, a housewife heard a noise that sounded like a "thousand dishes crashing from the sky." As she watched, the TWA Connie, carrying 44 passengers and crewmen, crashed to earth near by. Seconds later, a broken and torn DC-8 jet, which had been United Air Lines' proud Flight 826, bound for Idlewild from Chicago with 84 people, fell out of the sky into Brooklyn...
...shabby boardinghouse on West Kinmel Street owned by his mother, Mrs. Sarah Jane Harvey, 65. She had been under treatment for a cancerous stomach tumor, and he planned to have the house spruced up as a surprise for her when she got back from the hospital. Forcing the bolt of the closet, he opened the door and fell back in horror. Huddled on the floor at his feet, under thick layers of cobwebs and dust, was the shriveled body of a woman, partly covered with a moth-eaten blanket and the decayed remnants of a blue dressing gown. The skull...
...collaboration on this project, we selected, with the University's approval, some experts: Goldberg LeMessurier Associates for structure, Delbrook Engineering, Inc, for heating-ventilating and air conditioning, Thompson Engineering Company, for the electrical engineering, Bolt, Beranek and Newman for acoustics, George Izenour (who had already developed a new system for lifting scenery) for stage lighting and special engineering in connection with the stage and convertibility features. The coordination of all the collaborators made it possible to carry out the Architect's functional and aesthetic concept of this theater...
...think of himself as a journalist, and in his day he was a fairly flamboyant one. In a press era increasingly dominated by blue serge businessman, he has been one of journalism's most vivid personalities. His clothes looked as though they had been cut from a bolt of the rainbow. Brash and profane, he had enough gall to be thrice divided...
Joseph is a hopeless paraplegic. On the day of his betrothal to Mary he was struck by a bolt of lightning, and ever since he has lain paralyzed, sweating and gasping with the effort to say one word, syllable by agonized syllable: "Adonai"-the prophet's word for God. "And when he had finished this entire word he would re main tranquil for an hour or two until the struggle again gripped him and he began once more to open and close his mouth...