Word: lock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hinds County jailer refused to explain the charges against the students and had no idea when they would be arraigned. "If you're talkin' about them civil rights workers, the Highway Patrol just brought 'em in 25 minutes ago and told me to lock 'em up. I can't tell you nothin' about it," he said...
Bowe purchased an inexpensive replica of the statue, demonstrated to his colleagues that it would be a simple matter to break the lock on a door leading from the statue's head (where a million tourists annually stare out at the harbor through windows in the crown) into the 42-ft.-long torch-bearing arm, from which the public is excluded. At the statue's shoulder, Bowe reported, the Black Liberation boys could plant a few sticks of dynamite, detonate them with electrical blasting caps, and-bang!-in one blast the "damned old bitch" would be rendered both...
...drink-gin or vodka with lemon juice, sugar, soda and two dashes of bitters-served, naturally, in a Baccarat highball glass. . For younger Bondsmen, Multiple Products plans to market a toy attache case, complete with a four-piece toy sniper rifle, plastic dagger, decoding machine and a "searchproof" lock that, if tampered with, triggers a cap-firing device. Last week Roulette released a new rock'n'roll recording, Double-O-Seven, the lament of a young man whose "baby went and fell in love with Double-OSeven...
...family (twelve generations), and he observes that faith by celebrating 365 Condescension Days a year. This condescension drips like ungentle rain on anyone beneath-club stewards, upstairs maids, college deans, headwaiters, and Mike Connor, an upstart Irish colleague in his uncle's brokerage house. Then, at age 30, "Lock" suddenly suffers a rupture in his social conscience, a vestigial organ that probably never bothered a Thompson before...
...backgammon. Instead, Connor winds up $4,000 ahead, the well-born clubmen welsh on their losses, and Thompson begins to question himself. The answers he tries out are, successively, drinking, urinating on the Shore Club walls, and letting himself be cuckolded by, of all people, Connor. The disintegration of Lock Thompson evokes less pity or terror than tedium. Though Author Wetmore has a palate for sour-mash dialogue, he puts into a quart bottle what in John O'Hara's hands might have been a high-proof short snort...