Word: lock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days after the seizure, about 80 protesters gathered outside the storage company office. It was Heck who threw the stone through his own door. The IRS had changed the lock, pending removal of the seized equipment. In the scuffle some demonstrators were shoved into the building and federal agents were jostled...
...work like an internal anti-ballistic-missile system. Coming in contact with the invader, they recognize it by means of its biochemical flag, or identification marker. Every cell and microorganism is believed to carry at least one such flag on its surface; it fits, like a key in a lock, into a site on the lymphocytes. Thus lymphocytes, which know their body's own cells, recognize others as foreign and trigger an immunological alarm...
...cells, meanwhile, are stimulated to produce antibodies, which immunologists believe can be tailor-made to interact with each of the millions of different organisms a human may encounter in his lifetime. The antibodies lock onto foreign substances, making them far more susceptible to ingestion by macrophages and other scavenger cells...
...Eliot House office has issued all students and tutors these cards, which trip the lock by a magnetic "code" within the card. When the card is placed in the reader located next to the door, the magnetic code is signaled to a computer memory unit in the chilled water plant north of the Yard. If the card's code matches the memory unit, the door is automatically unlocked. Edward Delaney, night superintendent for Eliot House, said yesterday that the door was effective Saturday night in keeping wanderers out of the House. "People who were drunk and just looking for parties...
Florence Kennedy said that "the best thing you can do for this school is to have strikes, because otherwise you get lock-bowels from all the shit you have to take...