Word: lock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which ended with the arrest, imprisonment, or interrogations of dozens of us. During this time Elizabeth was under constant surveillance so that when I arrived in June, 1969, she told me that she was on the point of suicide, that she had made a vain attempt to change the lock on her door to keep the police from searching her apartment and tapping her telephone. It was clear that Brigitte's escape had closed the final avenues open to us to get married. We had to talk in whispers in her apartment about our future. I had warned Elizabeth against...
...groups pass the buck up to us," he said sternly. "If the Price Commission permitted prices that patently were exorbitant." he added, "or if the Pay Board announced their own goal of a 6% rate of inflation instead of 2% to 3%?well, at that point we'd lock horns." His self-assured manner left no doubt who would...
Burglars often break into off-campus Cambridge housing through rear windows or by removing window-panes and door-panels. For apartment-dwellers, dogs and safety-locks are the best deterrent to housebreakers. A lock that can be opened only by a key--from outside or inside--prevents burglars from opening a door once they've broken a pane...
...Government office or building for months before he sent his crew into action. He charted the flow of traffic and the movements of guards or watchmen around his target. He has used as many as 50 antiwar activists on a single job. He schooled them in techniques of lock picking and window smashing. Only when he was convinced by his notes, charts and diagrams that nothing had been left to chance did Grady give the word to break and enter...
...revolution's avowed purpose of creating no less than "a new Peruvian, one of dignity and responsibility" was a tall order. Peru was long overdue for a social overhaul. Only three years ago, giant foreign concerns and a few rich Peruvian families still had a hammer lock on the economy, controlling vast sugar estates that sometimes stretched for a quarter of a million acres, or running huge copper, zinc and silver mines where laborers worked for a little over...