Word: bolting
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...enters a room. It is' noticeable in the flash-like speed in which he moves from sitting to striding in the middle of an interview. It is noticeable in a meeting when, with youthful effortlessness, he swings from a low slouch (pressure on third lumbar) to bolt upright...
...processes. The Army is building a completely automatic TNT factory in Joliet, 111., while work on an atomic engine for the AEC includes such contraptions as General Electric's "O-Man," a 15-ton remote-controlled claw to handle radioactive material. (It can screw a nut on a bolt, and can even be made to pick up an egg.) Oil refineries, which used to crack oil by laborious batch methods, now do it in one steady, automatic flow; a few skilled workers sit at a master-control panel, guide the crude oil through many intricate steps to high-octane...
After Nixon was elected, Knowland continually referred to him in speeches as -"the junior Senator"-with emphasis on "junior." Real trouble developed last year before the G.O.P. convention. Nixon flew to Denver, boarded the California delegation's train, tried to persuade a bloc of Warren-pledged delegates to bolt to Eisenhower after the first ballot. Delegation Chairman Knowland, publicly for Warren, privately listing toward Robert A. Taft, was furious. He had a private label for Nixon's intervention: "fifth-columning...
...bound to come to the aid of any part of EDC attacked by an aggressor. The U.S. and Britain, who would not belong to EDC, separately guarantee to treat a "threat to the integrity or unity of EDC" as a "threat to their own security." A German attempt to bolt EDC would presumably constitute such a threat...
...Capri, an increasingly testy husband finds his Communist bride continually fending him off. Worse still, she shows an easy sense of comradeship with a fellow party worker they meet on the island. Just when the unhappy husband has decided that he and his wife are politically incompatible, a helpful bolt of summer lightning melts her lovingly in his arms...