Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist Philosopher Gyorgy Lukacs makes a distinction between the "disfigured Marxism" that is official party doctrine and what he calls "unfalsified Marxism," while the Yugoslav magazine Praxis warns that effective Marxism "must be completely free of party pressure." And Polish Writer Jan Szewczyk muses publicly whether Marxism is "a bolt of Red cloth that anyone may cut in whatever shape pleases...
...cartridge, setting off a primer charge. That in turn ignites the powder, which explodes and drives the bullet through the barrel but leaves the spent cartridge-and a trail of incompletely burned powder-behind. The cartridge must then be pulled out of the firing chamber by a bolt mechanism and ejected...
...Philadelphia, 1,500 subway riders stumbled through darkness from their stalled trains beneath the city where Benjamin Franklin started it all by attracting a bolt of lightning with kite and key. In Menlo Park, N.J., on the spot where Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb, an "eternal light" winked out for an instant before an emergency generator restored its glow...
Headed by Gaylord Parkinson, until recently California Republican chairman, the Nixon staff moved into a freshly whitewashed four-story building decked out with plush royal blue carpeting, flattering photographs of Nixon smiling with assorted statesmen, and Dick's new insignia, a white N-shaped bolt of lightning on a blue and red background. For his working staff, Parky, 48, has assembled a bright-looking thirtyish headquarters crew that seems to make up in zeal what it lacks so far in experience...
...travelers much of the airlines' baggage-handling hangup and the time-consuming trip to and from out-of-city airports. TEE passengers sometimes find themselves beating jet time - especially on trips of 250 miles or less. Like Ja pan's New Tokaido Line, whose Hikari and Kodama bolt between Osaka and Tokyo at speeds up to 130 m.p.h., Trans Europe trains are built for comfort as well as speed. While he travels from...