Word: lock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While a number of campuses have reported over the last year that they were either not offering co-ed dorms as an option to their students anymore. Alabama may be the first major university to "lock up" a single-sex dorm, College Press Service reported recently...
...more I thought about my Penn Station encounter, the more I had to dismiss the lock-em-up, cut-their-balls-off solutions so tempting during those first moments of rage. My assailant was a smoothie, not a thug. That was plain from the way he discreetly sidled up to me to show his gun, from his craftiness in taking only those items that could not incriminate him (no cards, just cash), and from his use of icy threats rather than force. No Hobbesian brute this--he seemed instead a rational, calculating man acting out of self-interest, not instinct...
...million or more this fiscal year. Says he: "Entrepreneurs want to be able to test their abilities and see how far they can go. It's the ultimate report card." That same pioneering spirit can make these businessmen hard to live with. Many are workaholics who lock themselves up in their offices for long stretches and have little tolerance for socializing...
...University of Venice and a Red Brigades terrorist. One commando opened the steel-reinforced door of the apartment with a skeleton key, and his colleagues burst inside. In the hallway they encountered Giovanni Ciucci, 32, a Red Brigades member, who had heard the key turn in the lock and was rushing, pistol in hand, to investigate. Before he had a chance to fire, one of the leatherheads knocked him flat with a karate chop, and the others scrambled down the hallway...
Four Friends is a retrospective lock right. It's an ass-backwards cavalcade of newsreel-type images lacking sound and fury, interspersed with gratuitous about ethnic groups, a kitchen sink toward detail, and a felling of amity that never gels...