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Word: lock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...death would occur. He had failed to kill President Reagan on a Washington sidewalk last March, and he had failed to kill himself two months later, in a North Carolina prison, by taking an overdose of painkillers. In the stockade at Fort Meade, Md., last week, Hinckley jammed the lock to his cell with a piece of cracker-box cardboard. Then he stood on a chair, knotted one sleeve of an Army field jacket around his neck and the other to an iron window bar and, as U.S. marshals shouted at him and struggled vainly to open the door, stepped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Attempt | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...week down in Tar Heel, country, where, because the hard-liquor drinking age remains at 21, most students drink beer, primarily Bud and Stroh's. After two solid nights of studying, Sunday and Monday, it's time to begin the Franklin Street circuit. Who can resist. "Lady Lock-in" at Prudy's Tuesday nights, when from eight to ten the management excludes all men while women down peany drafts (that's right) inside...

Author: By William A. Danoff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: In Tar Heel Country | 11/20/1981 | See Source »

...south until you reach route 91 south, which will take you right by Hartford giving you an easily forgettable view of the architecture of the modern insurance conglomerate. Once you're on route 91, it's clear sailing until you hit exit one, for downtown New Haven. Lock your doors, close your windows, and batten down the hatches for the next five minutes, until you reach the safe haven of the Yale campus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getting There | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

...have to get down before we can really fire up," Crimson lock Al Halliday said. After the Boston try, the Harvard forwards packed tighter and got lower in the scrum, driving the Boston pack off the ball...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Ruggers Bounce Back in Second Half, Overtake Boston Club 'B' Squad, 19-9 | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...fool as he was giddy about still being alive." Lengthy erotic descriptions tend to become postcoital arias. But Har rison scores well on the firing range: his humor usually strikes in the killing zone. Dashiell Hammett's low-rent realism made the mystery novel fun to read. War lock demonstrates that it is equally enjoy able to spoof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hick Gumshoe | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

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