Word: lock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they had done wrong. Marcelino Jiménez, 22, hiked for five days to a police outpost when he heard the authorities were looking for him. "If I had known that killing Indians was a crime, I would not have wasted all that time walking just so they could lock me up," he explained during the trial. The cowboys cooperated fully with the investigating magistrate, helpfully supplying every detail of the massacre. "All I did was kill the little Indian girl and finish off two who were more dead than alive anyway," protested one of the defendants. "From childhood...
Walking his late-night rounds at Washington's Watergate office building, a security guard spotted the tape blocking the bolt on a basement door. He removed it-but on his return a few minutes later he found the lock taped open again. He called police, and a three-man squad found two more taped locks-as well as a jimmied door leading into the shadowy offices of the Democratic National Committee on the sixth floor. Just outside Chairman Larry O'Brien's inner sanctum, they flushed five men wearing fingerprint-concealing surgical gloves and laden with...
...crime problem summer school students will most likely face is bicycle theft. Robert Tonis, chief of the Harvard Police, estimates that 150 bikes are stolen from Harvard students each year. A chain and lock are not foolproof deterrents. A bike chained to a parking meter or sign can be lifted over the top. Most chains can be clipped with a bolt-cutter and even if a ten-pound motorcycle chain securely attaches the front wheel to rack, theieves will often settle for the rear wheel and frame. One of the authors of this article had his Raleigh stolen while writing...
...from Paris, his wife, Flora Lewis, sometimes used the telephone, office facilities and chauffeur-driven car of the paper's Paris bureau. In the absence of the bureau chief, she would sometimes occupy his private office-a practice that ended when one of the correspondents installed a special lock. The arrangement was curious because Lewis, a skilled journalist of wide experience, was then writing a column for Newsday. The couple then returned to New York, where he became a Times vice president and she continued with Newsday...
...poems, Borges's stories lose nearly everything in summary. Though carefully structured, The Gospel According to St. Mark offers no blatant symbolism. Each sentence conveys a sense of the ending--not an obvious foreboding, but rather an enigmatic key, to which we ultimately--at the last sentence--find a lock. Only after the story is finished, do all the elements reorganize themselves and reveal a sort of meaning...