Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Denny's relations with his teammates became strained, particularly after he was quoted by a newspaper as calling the Tigers a "country-club ball team." He vigorously denied ever making the remark: "And may God strike me with a lightning bolt if that isn't true." Denny's traveling roommate, Pitcher Joe Sparma, promptly requested new accommodations, "just in case the Almighty should make a mistake and get the wrong...
...stronger measures were needed, and in June five battalions moved to launch sweeping search operations throughout South Blitar and its sandstone caves. In two months, they brought in 850 suspects, among them twelve members of the P.K.I.'s old Central Committee. They captured an arsenal of old bolt-action rifles, a few submachine guns and some homemade weapons. The army claimed that Oloan Hutapea, who took over the party's leadership after the death of D. N. Aidit in 1965, had been killed...
...bosses decided that corporate authorship was a profitable hedge against what Chairman David Powell, who succeeded Sir Jock, calls "the hazards of tropical agriculture." Thus the company has bought controlling interest in the works of such British authors as John and Penelope Mortimer, Gavin Lyall, Francis Clifford and Robert Bolt (A Man For All Seasons). Now, in its latest acquisition, Booker has signed on an author every bit as big as Ian Fleming. For an amount it refuses to disclose, the company has acquired 51% of everything published since 1955 by famed Mystery Writer Agatha Christie...
...Gaulle. He had to get away, De Gaulle said. For two nights, he had not slept, and now, in De Gaulle's words, he "couldn't see clearly." Moments later, a news bulletin flashed across France: a reporter at the Elysee had seen the presidential Citroen bolt out of a seldom-used back gate. Before De Gaulle quit in 1946, he had retreated from Paris to his estate at Colombey-les-deux-Eglises in eastern France. Now some 250,000 demonstrators were parading through Paris in yet another anti-De Gaulle protest. On hearing the bulletin, they began...
...Escape is a straightforward parable of the story of Jesus' trial and Pontius Pilate and Barabbas, the murderer the crowd would rather set free than Christ. The Drifter's judge shows the same reluctance to sentence execution as Pilate until forced to by the jury (crowd). The lightning bolt setting up the Drifter's escape is Christ rising on the third day to heaven. And by putting the story in a contemporary setting he's telling the people with a Bible in the desk, who think "it can't happen here," that it could and they would probably...