Word: bolting
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...Bolt on the Door. In the village schoolhouse, the chatter of the burp guns could not be heard. But as babies wailed and the women took worried counsel of each other, they sensed trouble. Soon they smelled it, then saw it. The Nazis had set torches to the village. Smoke seeped through cracks in the schoolhouse floor. In panic, the women crashed at the bolted door. It would not give. But their screaming and beating was too much for the lone soldier guarding the door. Moved by pity, he pulled the bolt, and the village women rushed out. Before them...
...Gaulle did not say what is also a fact, that his sterile refusal to join anti-Communist coalitions of either Left or Right has been the main cause of the instability of recent French governments. Only when a large section of his party threatened to bolt last January did De Gaulle give grudging permission to his deputies to support Premier Rene Mayer...
...went to Europe on a Grunewald mission to line up supplies of scarce metals. Grunewald collected $10,000 for the project, paid the former Secretary of War $2,500. ¶ Every year Grunewald spent about $900 giving $7.50 ties to friends. The ties were cut from a special bolt of cloth reserved for his "Christmas Tie-Out Club" by Manhattan's Charvet et Fils, purveyors of expensive cravats. The ties, said Grunewald. went to "high-class people." The subcommittee got a list of "club" members from Charvet et Fils, then, red-faced, decided not to make the names public...
...Under the Bolt...
...true Westerner's bias in favor of the working breed. "As for those tired old nags at the rodeo," says he, "they don't know the first thing about bucking." No one could say that about Leigh's recently painted range horse (opposite). "Like a bolt of lightning," as Leigh himself describes it, "the wily equine flies into the air with a volcanic suddenness-with a fantastic violence and rabid spleen that defy description...