Word: lock
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...lock on the front door of the suite was taped by residents, presumably to let party-goers enter, so the door was not locked when the intruders happened upon it,” Harris wrote in his e-mail to the House list...
...first seven years of the U.S. occupation of Japan, the military administration kept the islands under lock and key. No critical news escaped the previously fascist state, which was seen before the war as entirely unreceptive to democracy. All of the journalism sent to the world, and especially to America, was delivered via the military news agency, Stars and Stripes. Millions of letters were censored, if not destroyed...
...decrease the risk of theft, Catalano advised students to lock their doors, to avoid letting others “piggy-back” when they swipe into a dorm and to call HUPD to report any suspicious activity...
Parents battling skyrocketing college costs get an extra weapon this week as the first prepaid tuition plan designed for private colleges and universities makes its debut. Like the prepaid plans many states run for residents, the Independent 529 Plan is a tax-advantaged way to lock in tuition at today's rates, thus hedging against cost increases like last year's 6% average jump. The plan sells discounted tuition credits good at more than 220 private schools, from Amherst to Princeton. Contributing $10,000, for example, buys a full year at a like-priced college or half a year...
...feet or someone laying it in so they could first-touch get a cross off,” Westfall said. “They were pushing their line up, so we just tried to hit it to the corner flag, get them facing their own goal and then lock them...