Word: lock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burglars probably entered the Musem's main building through a downstairs window. They tore off the steel bands and punched out a lock to get through the two steel doors guarding the third floor room which housed the stolen jewels. To get into the display safe which housed the valuable jewels they had to jimmy and sledge-hammer their way through a steel and concrete lid and two inches of display glass. The burglars also smashed their way into seven other display cases. The whole job must have taken them at least three hours, but they were not discovered during...
Scott Fitzgerald wrote short stories with the speed of a tabloid rewrite man, and for the journeyman's unvarying reason: to satisfy a desperate and constant need for money. The legend is familiar; when dun notes piled too high during the bright, wild days with Zelda, Scott could lock himself in a room and come out next morning with a story salable...
...what was left of the fortune he supposedly amassed as president of the E. L. Bruce hardwood flooring firm. All they got was splinters. The Government hit him with a $3,464,472 tax lien, but there was no cash in his bank accounts. Bruce thought it had a lock on the goodies in his Fifth Avenue flat, but aside from the underwear, not much had been paid for. Most of his $524,635 art collection was out on approval, just like the $734,000 assortment of ice that Cartier recently sent over to Eddie's estranged wife Rhoda...
...industrial cities across the U.S., hundreds of churches much like St. John's have closed, merged, or moved lock, stock and chalice to the suburbs, after the middle-class territories they served degenerated into slums. This decline of Protestant strength in the "inner city" worries church leaders, and Castle, whose own community has lost at least two Episcopal and one Presbyterian church in the past 15 years, shares their concern. "We need to turn out from ourselves to see the people God has given us the privilege to minister and serve," he says...
...critic, Russian or not, has yet been able to lock Vladimir Nabokov in a box, except for the clumsily made critical box labeled "cleverness" - a confinement not really confining, since cleverness implies an ability to get out of boxes. Still, by general acknowledgment, Nabokov is the cleverest author to write in Russian in the last few decades, and probably the cleverest in English since James Joyce, despite the fact that English is his third language...