Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rockefeller is harboring thoughts of a third-party bolt in the style of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Bull Moose revolt. Right-leaning Columnist David Lawrence and left-leaning Columnist Murray Kempton, who rarely agree on anything, both detected a scent of Bull Moose in the air, pointed out that no Republican presidential hopeful has openly attacked a Republican Administration since T.R. blasted William Howard Taft...
...Belt Bolt. In San Francisco, cops sought the motive behind the theft, from the Rathskeller Restaurant's historical display, of a seven-lb., forged-iron, 15th century chastity belt...
...that requests for reprints come in at the rate of 20 a day. An old-shoe type, he has a kick like a hobnailed boot when he wants something done better-which is pretty often. When a copywriter ventured that an idea had come to him "like a bolt out of the blue," Brower remarked: "Looks to me like you were struck with a broomstraw...
...above the earth's surface, he pressed a button that sent a radio impulse to the telescope's big dish, and from there it was beamed into space. Pioneer V got the message. A switching device in its electronic insides shot an electric current through a fusible bolt. The bolt melted and released a spring. It pushed Pioneer V away from the third-stage rocket, whose burned-out carcass might otherwise interfere with efficient radio transmission...
...MISSILE SPENDING will give Douglas Aircraft $60 million in fiscal 1961 for full-scale development of its 1,000-mile, air-to-ground Sky-bolt missile. Designed as a "standoff" weapon to be launched from B-52 jet bombers, Skybolt is expected to be major nuclear weapon, is slated to go into service within next three to five years...