Word: lock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skipper then takes his place in the control room, opens a lock, to which only he has the combination, on a red "fire" button. This sets off a carefully coordinated sequence in which at least 15 men are vitally involved. At last, Lacy pushes the red button-and holds it down. A console lights up: "Captain's permission to fire." The weapons officer, Lieut. Commander Russell McWey, shouts "Fire One." The ship's fire control supervisor presses his own "fire" button. A five-ton steel hatch opens on deck, and a burst of compressed air ejects...
...under lock...
...Radcliffe Field House was closed to individual students last week because of "parietal abuses." Mr. Robert B. Gates, Director of Buildings and Grounds and Optional Services, ordered the lock on the Field House changed, and has not allowed the key to be used by Radcliffe students...
...Germany expressed the warmest interest; the British looked on the scheme with "mild benevolence." But all seven wanted to hear more about it, and allowed that the price was high and the payoff distant. Meanwhile, all but a fraction of the existing Western atomic stockpile would remain under U.S. lock and key. The proposal was coldly received in France, where the Gaullist daily La Nation even dubbed the prospect of a multilateral force "la farce multilatérale." If the Polaris plan had been touted as a significant boost to the West's deterrent, the gibe might have been...
Privacy scarcely exists in the dormitories. In cell-like rooms jutting off long corridors sleep numerous little Radcliffe students in two straight lines. 'Cliffies can't even lock their own rooms. In the lavatories they brush their teeth three in a row. And meals are always eaten with nine other people...