Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union, fixed on a target in the U.S. Almost immediately its fiery exhaust plumes trip warning sensors in satellites orbiting overhead. One of those satellites sends a powerful beam of light, or perhaps even a cascade of subatomic particles, bursting down from the heavens like a Jovian lightning bolt. The beam homes in on the ascending missile and fastens onto its nose cone. Burning through, the beam turns the electronic guidance system into silicon mush, sending the missile wobbling off course and totally immobilizing its nuclear warhead. As it plunges back into the atmosphere, no longer protected...
...world, like Communist-ruled, isolationist Albania. The moderates argued that France must stay in the European Monetary System (E.M.S.), which requires every member to maintain the value of its currency within a narrow range against the others, even at the cost of domestic sacrifice. The "Albanians" urged Mitterrand to bolt the E.M.S. and resort to protectionism...
...best singles, a seven-minute-long and atypically political number called The Message. Flash and the crew are treach, which is short for treacherous and slang for what a decade ago would have been called superfine. Grandmaster favors leathers, tip to toe, and has FLASH spelled out in lightning-bolt letters on the back of his jacket. Mr. Ness, of the Furious Five, favors metal studs, while his compatriot, Melle Mel, currently opts for fur. This is work wear, not street clothing, but Melle Mel knows what message they are putting across. "It gives you a more dominant, primitive look...
...like the sound barrier," he says. Before anyone else made 15 ft., eleven years later, Warmerdam had done it 43 times. He held the world record 15 years. "Of course I go back to when the pole was a pretty stable instrument," he explains. Warmerdam's first bolt of bamboo carried him over high hedges and cringing livestock all across his father's spinach farm in California's San Joaquin Valley. His records were built of bamboo; steel and aluminum poles came along in the '50s, fiberglass in the '60s. Since then, the record...
...beam lights at car that cut in front of him, whose occupants then hurl a beer can at his windshield, kick out his tail lights, slug him eight stitches' worth. 2) Dump-truck driver annoyed by delay batters trunk of stalled car ahead and its driver with steel bolt. 3) Hurrying driver of 18-wheel truck deliberately rear-ends car whose driver was trying to stay within 55 m.p.h. limit. The Houston Freeway Syndrome has fortunately not spread everywhere. But the question is: Will...