Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chevrolet Camaro, registered in Dauphine's name, and a bolt cutter, apparently used to cut the chain securing the motorcycle, were found at the scene...
...major difference between the Truman and Johnson decisions is that the discontent with Truman was tame compared with the virulent hatreds that Johnson aroused. Then, too, except for the Dixiecrats who threatened to bolt as they had in 1948, the intraparty feud that Truman faced was minor. His really serious problem would have been trying to defeat the probable G.O.P. candidate, Dwight Eisenhower...
Even on your first trip to a skin flick parlor, what first strikes you is not the bare bosom on the screen, but the people in the audience. There are about fifty lean men, sitting bolt-upright and silent, and scattered evenly throughout the theatre. Un-written skin flick code says no one may sit within three seats of anyone else, even on crowded weekends...
...death, the Liberal leadership-and prime ministership-seemed far more likely to go to Deputy Party Leader William McMahon, Holt's treasurer and second-in-command. But Interim Prime Minister John McEwen, leader of the Country Party and a longtime personal rival of McMahon, warned that he would bolt the coalition if the Liberals chose McMahon. Amid the resulting party turmoil, Gorton went quickly to work gathering support for his own drive, and gained a full week on everyone else. By the time last week's Liberal Party convention opened in Canberra, he had already built...
...which most of the employees at the girls' company belong. "The problem in British industry," he added, "is outdated, outmoded factories, and outmoded and ill-equipped management." Nonetheless, the workers at the girls' firm defied a union order to stop the free work and even threatened to bolt the union...