Word: lock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vice President Nixon was set upon by a Red-incited mob in 1958) leftist organizers in the high schools burned two cars and a bus, passed out leaflets exhorting the capital to "receive Kennedy as it did Nixon." President Betancourt will no doubt call out all the troops and lock up all the troublemakers he can find. The question is whether he can find them all. Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger played down any danger: "We have plenty of confidence in the hospitality and friendship of the Venezuelan people...
...Britain received the news grimly. Washington saw the "absurd" pretext of a German threat as the opening bid for stationing Soviet troops on Finnish soil while diverting attention from Soviet pressure on Berlin. Ultimately, Moscow might intend to whisk neutral Finland behind the Iron Curtain, lock the Baltic door behind her. The Swedes felt the same fears, and there was growing talk about reconsidering Sweden's historic neutrality. NATO member Norway, which shares a 390-mile frontier with Finland in the north, prepared to draw up new defense plans...
...junta now headed by Park. Among other things, the defendant stood charged with "obstructing the military takeover." Translation: Chang had only belatedly agreed to front for the rest of the military plotters, and then solely upon threat to his life. Further, after the coup, he had failed to lock-step with bamboo-tough little Park. Since the junta's takeover, some 40,000 people have been arrested, and though most have been released, the police remain capricious. Recently, when a Korean professor invited some of his students out for dinner at a restaurant, cops arrested him. The charge: illegal...
...half; Bill Mares, fly half; Charlie Rowe and Steve Gehlback, centers; Al Rutan and Ian Pasley-Tyler wings; and Julian, fullback. In the scrum: Dick Schulman and Rick Rice, props; Dave McGugan, hooker; Buss Miller and Mike Stabler, second row; Fred Winthrop and Freeman, wing forwards; and Van-Schalkwyk, lock...
Moreover, with Nasser's blessing, the easygoing country was consigned to the rule of Interior Minister Abdel Hamid Serraj. Now 36, a ruthless graduate of the French-modeled gendarmerie, Serraj had a hammer lock hold on the country through control of its 15,000-man police force and an army of informers. Strongman Serraj beat and imprisoned thousands of Syrians. So efficient were his spies that garrulous Syrians learned to speak in whispers, developing an ailment known as "Syrian twitch"-a nervous compulsion to glance over their shoulders when talking...