Word: lock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among other things, Leonard Lyons: has loaned Sophia Loren his thermal underwear; buys his hats from Lock's of London; once beat Ernest Hemingway in a nose-measuring contest; purposely keeps his gold Bulova set eight minutes fast; dined alone with the Trumans their last night in the White House; can get away without tipping hat-check girls at New York's Inmost restaurants; introduced Two-Ton Tony Galento to Noel Coward and Marc Chagall to Richard Nixon. Leonard Lyons also is the last syndicated celebrity columnist who does all his own legwork...
...family, Anita "wanted to be a teacher, a writer perhaps, with a little play-acting thrown in," but she had always considered the possibility of becoming a nun. As a student at Immaculate Heart College, she was impressed by the sisters ("Even then they weren't all in lock step"). After graduating, she entered the convent and began teaching English in its high school. The order sent her to Stanford for a doctorate in English literature (1948), and she became college president in 1957. Six years later she was elected Mother General. Says Corita Kent...
...scheduled for today. In Boston, the November Action Coalition is sponsoring a militant, nonviolent march from the Park Street subway station to Post Office Square. TDA will give us a chance to join our feeble individual voices together to show the government's witchhunters that they will have to lock up a lot more than ten men before the silence of the majority is the only voice left to be heard in this country...
...outcaste farmer, owned a spread of 40 or 50 acres in a relatively tolerant area of Bihar state. Not until he went to Banaras Hindu University in 1926 did Ram really learn the anguish of Untouchability. When word of his outcaste status got around, his landlord threatened to lock him out. As Ram recalls it today: "I told him that if he broke my lock, I would break his head...
...border guards had a different idea. After we had parked the car in a lot on the American side ("Last Safe Parking Here; Lock Your Car.") and walked through the American station, four Mexican federales rushed up to meet...