Word: latching
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...been issued. The bulletin did spell out clearly how an airline could take precautions to make sure that the cargo door was locked. They included fitting a support plate on the door, installing a window in the door so that a ground-crew member could tell if the latch hooks were properly engaged and posting locking instructions clearly in English. Tragically, as French investigators discovered last week, the ground crewman who sealed the door on the Turkish Airlines craft could not read...
...night of June 17, 1972, Frank Wills was working as a security guard at Washington's Watergate complex. He noticed on his first round that the latch of a basement door had been taped open. Wills assumed workmen that day had done it; so he removed the tape and continued his patrol. When he came around again, however, he found that the tape had been replaced. Wills called the police. The five Watergate burglars were arrested, and the episode became part of the currently traumatic American history...
...women of the Seven Sisters put out a book entitled Where The Boys Are which trenchantly examined all the male colleges in the Northeast. After scrutinizing Wesleyan. Tufts and Trinity, ("the boy from Trinity is like the boy next door, if the boy next door is a drunken latch"), the women turned to Harvard and Yale...
...lewis obtains group agreement (Ed is the deciding vote). In the book, the narrative progression is so lumps and Dickey's themes so muddled, that the some assumes importance not as another descending step into a home grown heart of darkness, but a thematic base for the reader to latch onto. When Drew later inexplicably keels over and out of his canoe, and drowns in a horrendous fall down a gorge's waterfall, we feel some innate moral order is rescuing this saint from this world and leaving the rest, bruised targets for the other stalking hillbilly, to their further...
...open the latch...