Word: bolting
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...horseshoe-type, steel alloy key lock on your bicycle. Lock it to something stationary and solid enough to resist bolt cutters, such as a sign post, iron fence or bike rack...
...result, it turned out, of a light-gathering mirror that had been ground with exquisite precision, but in the wrong shape. After a lengthy investigation, the disaster was laid to a simple, dumb mistake: a technician had assembled a device that guided the mirror-grinding process with one bolt put on backward. The hobbled Hubble could still do some important science, but much of its research program appeared headed out the window. "I'd been working on this for almost two decades," says Bahcall. "I was devastated...
...DAWG POUND" End zone-loving Cleveland football fans get stiff-armed as Browns bolt for Baltimore
...with heart problems, BORIS YELTSIN sure is frisky. As he arrived at what was supposed to be a press conference regarding his coming summit meeting with President Clinton, Yeltsin playfully tweaked two female secretaries. One woman, startled by this gesture of fellowship, sat bolt upright and spun around; the other barely reacted. The oddball presidential games over, the gathering got serious. Yeltsin announced that he was firing his Foreign Minister; the following day he changed his mind...
...person] took the bolt out of the wall, put the TV in a box and carried it out," said Buzney, noting that the bolt had been pulled out of the wall and the box the TV came in was gone...