Word: locke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart attack; in Manhattan. After brief flings at real estate, the stage and auto racing, she joined the Maquis in 1940 at her summer home, in Auribeau on the Riviera. Known as "Fredericka" and la fille å la mėche blonde (because of a lock of white hair on her forehead), she served the Resistance movement for four years, once rescued 16 U.S. paratroopers stranded behind enemy lines...
...will bring Amsterdam's river traffic 25 miles and 20 hours closer to Germany. In the age-old competition for the rich river traffic, the sister port of Rotterdam, sitting near the North Sea, has always had the advantage. Now, with the opening of the largest inland navigation lock in Europe, and the completion of the canal which was first planned back in 1915, Amsterdam hopes to double its 23 million tons of shipping in the river. Despite the two-city rivalry, all The Netherlands celebrated, and Queen Juliana herself was at the helm of the first ship...
...fact quite early in life. Take his father, a man who "could rarely get the top off anything . . . was forever trying to unlock something with the key to something else." How could Thurber, or any kid, ever forget that his dad, wearing a derby hat, tried to repair the lock to the rabbit hutch, and "succeeded only after getting inside the cage, where he was imprisoned for three hours with six Belgian hares and thirteen guinea pigs"? Or take his mother, who "once distressed a couple of stately guests in her father's home by descending the front stairs...
...long-standing friendly rivalry between two government professors will break out in public at 7:30 p.m. tonight at a Dunster House forum. Arthur A. Maass, assistant professor of Government and Charles R. Cherington '35, associate professor of Government will lock horns in a debate on the public power issue. Carl Kaysen, assistant professor of Economics, will be the moderator...
...young editors, ten-year-old Tommy Piper of Lock Haven (Pa.), reported the gist of it all in terse journalese: "The President . . . told about why he had come from Florida. The reason was very simple. He had come to talk to us so we would grow up to be good men like...