Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although it seems horrible enough, I guess there is a positive aspect to the torture which I go through each summer. After about a week of bolt-grinding, I begin to miss the shuttle bus. After a month of ditch digging, I could sit through an English 10 lecture without screaming, and finally, by the beginning of September I love Harvard, and can't wait to be back. Even the Lampoon reads well after a summer with Baby...
Terrorist acts are hardly frequent, and one has a greater chance of being struck by a bolt of lightning. So the fear, I must conclude, is manifested falsely by our press. Couple this with a weakening dollar overseas, and you get a rather American-less Europe...
...restricting tuna fishing AND WITHIN MINUTES HALF A DOZEN POWERFUL SPEEDBOATS ARE LOWERED OVER THE SIDE INTO THE BRIGHT WATERS OF THE EASTERN PACIFIC. BURSTING INTO NOISY LIFE, THEY SLICE THROUGH THE CRESTING WAVE TOPS AT 35 KNOTS. DEAD AHEAD OF THEM, A POD OF PORPOISES, OR DOLPHINS, BOLT WITH FRIGHT, BUT THE FLEEING MARINE MAMMALS ARE SOON OVERTAKEN. LIKE COW PONIES ROUNDING UP CATTLE, THE SPEEDBOATS HERD HUNDREDS...
Then, 10,000 or more years ago, man joined forces with nature to maintain the prairie ecosystem. "A spark from an Indian campfire or a bolt of lightning, and the prairie was ablaze," says Northeastern Illinois University Biologist Robert Betz. The fires, Betz explains, were a natural part of the system, favoring the growth of deep-rooted species that could easily survive the repeated conflagrations. A startling variety of plants and flowers flourished under these conditions, their roots creating a dense, interlocking mass that reached as far as twelve feet underground. Between blazes, the prairies teemed with quarry...
...moment of anxiety for the bandits occurred when, while still unscrewing a bolt, one of them realized that the bell was scheduled to ring in just 30 seconds. The two scampered partway down the tower's ladder, waited for the bell to stop ringing, and finished...