Word: bolting
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...when you're talking about someone self-destructing? What happened to Mel Gibson is the kind of thing you bolt up at 3 in the morning and go, "Oh my God, did I have this horrible dream...
...proved so difficult. But it is worth setting out the keys to peace that--with time, patience and goodwill in an area where they are in chronically short supply--might one day allow people to concentrate on building a better life for their children rather than scurrying into bolt-holes and shelters. Here are six of them...
...Robert Mueller a little nervous these days. Consider his No. 2, John Pistole, who hits retirement age when he turns 50 this month. For weeks rumors bubbled up to the seventh floor of the FBI's headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington: Pistole was going to bolt for a lucrative job in the private sector. The whispers got so loud that Pistole took it upon himself to assure Mueller that he wasn't leaving. One reason he gave: it wouldn't be right to split when so many other senior officials have headed for the exits...
...bolt spared Roosevelt the humiliation of losing to Taft. It also kept his candidacy alive on a brand-new ticket of his own creation, the National Progressive Party, better known as the Bull Moose Party, a nickname that came from the answer T.R. had given when someone in a crowd yelled out to ask how he felt. "Like a bull moose," he yelled back...
...everyone else at the convention found it an exhilarating combination of barn raising and revival meeting. They hammered together their platform, belted out hymns and interrupted Roosevelt's acceptance speech 145 times to holler and applaud. When he closed with the best line from his first speech after the bolt--"We stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord"--they burst into what may still be history's loudest rendition of Onward, Christian Soldiers...