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Word: lock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next step in the University's plan was to lock the east, west and north entrances to the Science Center each night. A security guard would then have been seated facing the only entrance to the building, the one across from the Yard. After 10 p.m., visitors to the building would have had to show University identification...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Unsafe Attitude | 2/25/1989 | See Source »

...that the ditch, 5 ft. deep and 14 ft. wide, will frustrate high-speed car dashes across the border, which now average 400 a month, and * also help correct drainage problems in the area. A report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform supported the idea of the ditch. "Locking uninvited gate-crashers out," it said, "is just good common sense. Everyone has the right to lock his own back door." Associate Attorney General Francis Keating has come up with a nickname for the big hole: "Our buried Berlin Wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigration: Last-Ditch Effort | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

Public opinion has never stampeded Brown, 80. In fact, it has tended to lock him in place. In 1950, after the short-lived All-America Football Conference disbanded, the leftover 49ers and Browns were derisively absorbed into the N.F.L. "They don't even have a football," remarked first commissioner Elmer Layden. Before Cleveland's big-league debut against the champion Philadelphia Eagles, Brown gathered his rinky-dinks all around -- players with names like Groza, Motley and Graham -- and delivered a pep talk of two sentences. Referring to the star of both the Eagles and the league, he said dryly, "Just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Just A Super Bowl of Crescendos | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

Fullback Bruce Miller, lock James Keller, center Scott Tierney, prop Jon Greenberg and scrum-half Mike Gibbs all earned spots on the All-Eastern squad, which represents 27 states on the East Coast. Center Scott Hilinski was named as an alternate...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Five Ruggers Are Named All-Eastern | 12/14/1988 | See Source »

Harvard's security force, combined with the Cambridge police, does make the Harvard area much safer in comparison with other schools. Some women at Brown University, for instance, walk home with lock-blades held under crossed arms. I do not think Harvard students need to react so rashly. But although a roving, ever-ready security system protects pedestrians, it does not deter intrusions into dormitories and common buildings, and hence possible sexual assault...

Author: By Albert Y. Hsia, | Title: More Security, Not Vigilance | 12/13/1988 | See Source »

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