Word: bolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everything is tinged a deep blue down here, also, because Yale's Captain Paul Walker, All-America end, guards Bill Schuler and Bolt Elwell, and center Marty Dwyer are also on the bench with injuries. Dwyer is out for the season; the others are doubtful...
Some bored Broadwayites take amphetamine sulfate (benzedrine, the popular stay-awake drug) along with barbiturates, to get an effect called "a bolt and a jolt." It lays a man out, then snaps him to. The antithesis of the barbiturates, benzedrine has a stimulating effect (much like ephedrine or like the body's own adrenaline). The Army sometimes used benzedrine to keep flyers awake on long missions...
When he switched to searchlights in 1943, Bridgeport-born Emil Koch was nearly ready to bolt for the California shipyards. But last week, with the papers full of unemployment alarms, he was glad his wife had held him back...
...that was past. In New Canaan, Imogene was more interested in the present. She was frequently photographed in scanty swimming suits. She turned her dark, innocent eyes on next-door neighbor Charlie Milton, susceptible treasurer of a bolt company, father of three. New Canaan tongues began to clack...
...just after midday, when thousands of Osaka workers had paused to bolt down meager lunches in the partly ruined Chicago of Japan. High in the heavy overcast the U.S. planes rode in-more than 400 B-29s and 150 escorting P-51 Mustang fighters. For three hours the planes were overhead. High-explosive bombs fell first, driving Japanese air-raid workers to the shelters. Then the fire bombs fell, destroying without interruption...