Word: bolts
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...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...
...unmarked Alberto Gilardino, and he did not miss with the header. The U.S. has had a glaring weakness in restarts after fouls - it was evident in warm-up games, and the problem hadn't eased any here. But before Italy had a chance to set up its bolt-the-door defense for the night, the Americans were level. Italy's Cristian Zaccardo knocked Bobby Convey's cross into...
...treetops by strapping themselves onto a web of steel cables threaded through the forest canopy. Biologists studying the flora and fauna in the Costa Rican cloud- and rain-forest canopies invented the system in the 1980s. It's an adventure that is eco-friendly?not one nail or bolt is drilled into a tree, as the whole system is held together with tension and leverage forces. The highest point is 30 m above the ground, and you can reach speeds of up to 50 km/h. And if you're after a bit of wildlife to go with your whooping...
...treetops by strapping themselves onto a web of steel cables threaded through the forest canopy. Biologists studying the flora and fauna in the Costa Rican cloud- and rain-forest canopies invented the system in the 1980s. It's an adventure that is eco-friendly - not one nail or bolt is drilled into a tree, as the whole system is held together with tension and leverage forces. The highest point is 30m above the ground, and you can reach speeds of up to 50km/h. And if you're after a bit of wildlife to go with your whooping and swooping, head...