Word: bolting
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...Summer Repertory Company will start its season Tuesday with Robert Bolt's A Man For All Seasons, to be presented in repertory with George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man, bowing Wednesday...
...Army Jeep slows as it corners on a bumpy, narrow forest road. From the back seat, two wild-eyed German SS troopers lunge uncertainly, then bolt for the nearby wood. A pistol crackles, and the running Germans plop forward on their faces. They were shot while attempting to escape, reports the U.S. Army lieutenant who gunned them down. Not so, insists a civilian witness: the troopers had been commanded to bolt and then were callously murdered. Getting at the truth turns out to be like peeling through several skins of an onion. First-Novelist Frederick Keefe, who is an editor...
...Connally's wounds were not caused by the same shot that struck Kennedy in the throat, there must have been two marksmen, since two shots could not have been aimed and fired so quickly from the bolt-action rifle which Oswald used...
...simple, stoic girl who resigned herself to her early mistreatment, only to become too numbed and weakened by its later savagery to resist. At first, when Sylvia was abused, her sister testified, she would "just grit her teeth and shake her head." After young Hobbs, using a heated anchor bolt, branded Sylvia with the numeral 3, she said: "There's nothing I can do. It's on there...
...told me to finish it." Etched in two tiers of inch-high block letters across Sylvia's lower abdomen, the words said: "I'm a prostitute and proud of it." Two days later, Hobbs added, he used the hooked end of a 2-ft.-long anchor bolt that had been heated with burning newspapers to brand the numeral 3 on Sylvia's chest...