Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hubble was designed to be serviced in orbit. Before it was launched, more than 16,000 photographs were taken of every square inch of the spacecraft to ensure that astronauts wouldn't be surprised once they started working. Handrails, footholds and handholds were strategically placed around Hubble, and every bolt was made the same size so that spacewalking mechanics wouldn't have to handle extra tools...
Strobe had crossed over to the other side after 22 years as a journalist, and part of him still could not believe he had made the journey. "This is a bolt out of the blue," he said. "I never expected to be in government, never aspired to be in government. It's a classic example of an offer I could not refuse...
...group of first-years have their way on election day, President Neil L. Rudenstine will bolt from Mass. Hall to the White House come January...
...lightning bolt of uncertainty had crashed into a campaign that was shaping up as a likely Democratic blowout. Suddenly, the battle between a flagging incumbent and his brash young challenger was transformed into a weird tag-team contest in which the newcomer might join forces with one man against the other -- or beat up on both of them simultaneously. And the complicated debate calculus that had been at the center of weeks of negotiations was skewed by the prospect of an unprecedented three-way debate...
More mundane experiences are conveyed just as pierceingly. The ocean at sunset "shines silvery like a bolt of shot silk." A swimming pool on a hot day is "polar cold. After a while cold feels like a different kind of warmth, hypothermal hypnosis, a fugue state, sweet...