Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early 1920s, when I was a youngster growing up in the hills of western New York State, our neighboring farmer had one. He put it to good use too. It was a treadmill affair for churning butter. Whenever he got it ready to use, the big collie dog would bolt out of the house and hide in the barn...
...Lamb. "One way or another," she says, "I've been naked in just about all my films-by now I've got a veteran pair of breasts. But I'm still not comfortable flashing them around. Although they seem well received." Sarah's husband, Robert Bolt, writer-director of Lamb, was more detached. "I suppose cynics will say that naked breasts are good for box office-and they are," he observed. "But these are naked breasts with a dramatic purpose...
...nation's biggest builder, ITT Levitt, operates one of the most modern of these plants in Battle Creek, Mich., turning out one complete house every hour. The modules are hauled to the building sites, where cranes hoist them into place on prepared foundations and workers nail and bolt them together in 20 minutes. Cost of an average town house...
Industrial capitalism gives no meaning to work; factories are hierarchical and not democratically administered. One of the demands in last year's auto strike was that a group of men be allowed to construct an entire car together instead of each having to tighten one bolt on an assembly line. Only 21 per cent of steelworkers interviewed in a study for the book said they would keep the same job if they could start all over. Such people are coming to see little future for their children. Mike Dombrowski is the third generation of his family to work...
Youthful members of the white majority are becoming particularly alienated, for while their fathers may have been content with the security of a steady job, they have not experienced a depression. They look with horror at the prospect of forty years of bolt-tightening and shoveling. Drugs, long hair and other forms of middle class alienation are spreading to the working class. More substantially, wild-cat striking and rejection of union negotiated cantracts have been rising exponentially in recent years, actions primarily initiated by young workers...