Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-nuclear adherents are preparing for another attempt, substantially the same as the first. The 62-page booklet calls again for "mass fence takedown along whole sections of the perimeter allowing large numbers of people to move onto the site simultaneously." Again there will be gasmasks and bolt cutters; grappling hooks are much discussed, and the organizers recommend bringing "plywood for shielding...
...Britain by the European Community. She has taken on Britain's powerful trade unions, reducing them from their self-appointed role as a partner in government to just another pressure group. With every hair and vowel in place, Thatcher may seem to be cut from the same bolt as the Queen, but she would rather be respected than loved...
Kunar's embattled mujahidin clearly are on the defensive. Of the 160 rebels I saw, fewer than 10% had automatic weapons. The village commander at Baralow carries a bolt-action deer rifle. When asked how they could fight a modern army, several of the bearded elders in his 160-man force brandished curved swords. They make the most of what is available. Broken donkey harnesses are restitched into Sam Browne belts...
...Fort Knox at home can range from a $200 one, 9 in. in diameter and 15 in. deep with a solid-steel door, to the $26,000 British-made Tann safe, complete with glass panels, double doors and maddeningly intricate bolt slips...
...saddest realities about the battle is the insurgents' inability to cope with equipment. Although rebel groups have captured Soviet-built tanks, howitzers and even some helicopters, the machinery goes unused because most of the tribesmen do not have the training to operate anything more sophisticated than a bolt-action rifle. Nonetheless, the righteous tenacity of a thousand blood feuds persists. "I am just a mountain man who acts according to circumstances," says Janeb Gul. "Allah will help us because ours is a just fight. Our weapon is our faith...