Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...millions of people have who become Christians in a deeply personal way." Says Marabel Morgan of her own experience, which took place when she was working as a beautician and rinsing a client's newly washed hair: "There with the water running I was born again. There was no bolt of lightning, only peace. I was tickled to death...
Despite their basic understanding of the phenomenon, scientists have been at a loss to explain how droplets within the cloud-or any other mechanism-can generate the tremendous potential (about 100 million volts) necessary to produce lightning or why the bolt follows so jagged a path. The answers may well lie in the action of cosmic rays, which are actually protons or other atomic particles that continuously plunge toward the earth from outer space...
What triggers the bolt, says Follin, are particles in the secondary cosmic showers called muons, which increase the charge with fresh electron avalanches. Finally, electrons burst from the cloud along a path of ionized (electrically charged) air. As other muons intercept the path at different angles, forming new trails, the electrons follow a jagged, steplike route to the ground...
Modification or elimination of mandatory retirement is an idea that has arrived with a rush, catching almost everybody off guard. Concedes a U.S. Labor Department official: "The prospect of more old folks working hit us this month like a bolt from the blue, and quite honestly, we don't know how this is going to affect problems like chronic youth unemployment, sex discrimination and shifting consumer patterns. Nobody knows...
Armed with search warrants, dozens of FBI agents used chain saws, sledgehammers and bolt cutters to break into three Scientology offices. They wore rubber gloves to avoid new fingerprints. The raids lasted up to 23 hours, and at the end the FBI needed 550 pages to index some 20,000 documents they had seized in the process. The captured material included files on "bugging devices," a "locksmith course," material on "the correct use of codes" and a folder marked "CIA agents' directory...