Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...primaries. Two things are required to remain a good Democrat--to register, and to support the candidate selected by the primary, Ideological credentials are not required, and revolutionary Democrats would work to keep it that way. Loyalty to the party would be essential. If anyone is going to bolt, let it be the fat cats...
...uprising was not planned in advance. Sealed off in one block of the prison, a small group of rioters exploded in a "spontaneous burst of violent anger" at a guard. When a faulty bolt unexpectedly gave way as they shoved on a gate, they suddenly had access to the rest of the prison. "The rebels were part of a new breed of younger, more aware inmates, largely black, who came to prison full of deep feelings of alienation and hostility," the commission concluded, but they were not "revolutionary conspirators...
...NOAA experimenters know that they are playing with fire. Two weeks ago, an unanticipated lightning bolt burned an inch-wide hole in the wing of their plane. But Project Director Heinz Kasemir and his fellow scientists think that the risks are worth taking. Lightning suppression could be used to help prevent fatalities and forest fires, and might even benefit the space program. NASA could eventually employ suppression techniques at storm-prone Cape Kennedy, where lightning bolts have occasionally hit giant Saturn rockets on their pads and once, during a launch, knocked out the electrical system of Apollo 12, threatening...
...bite or bolt), She simplifies them to flowers...
...bicycle theft. Robert Tonis, chief of the Harvard Police, estimates that 150 bikes are stolen from Harvard students each year. A chain and lock are not footproof deterrents. A bike chained to a parking meter or sign can be lifted over the top. Most chains can be with a bolt-cutter and even if a ten-pound motorcycle chain securely attaches the front wheel to a root thieves will often settle for the rear wheel as frame. One of the authors of this article had hi Raleigh stolen while writing the place, in fact...