Word: locke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Misunderstood, feared, revered, and gossiped, the secret societies cap every Yale-man's ambitions. Their windowless, padlocked tombs squat on central points in the campus; tight-lipped members emerge from ponderous doors at midnight and lock-step through the streets of New Haven...
Play is continuous except for penalties, and there are no time-outs or substitutes. The ball is put in play by throwing it into the "scrum"--the eight forwards of each team who lock arms, put their heads together, and attempt to get and stop the ball from each other. The "hooker"--middle man in the front row of three--heels it back through the ranks until it is taken by the "scrum half" who hands behind the scrum. He throws it out laterally to the fly half, who tosses it center three-quarters, and they to the wings...
...pound Doug Worrall is the fly-half, and John Cotter is the scrum-half, Roger Gleeby is the "lock," polo-playing Tom Calhoun the other wing forward, while George Lee, Club secretary, and Brad Lundborg make up the second row. Doug Hardy and Club treasurer Bruce White are in the front row, with Lew Travis as be hooker. The spares are Hollis Hunnewell, Ken Kunhardt, Kit Liang, Andy Eklund, and David Akers...
...keep clanking effectively in his homemade shining armor. Last week he had the wit to jail hundreds of astoundingly puny hoodlums on the ground that they imperiled the sanctity of the polls. He announced that he had been forced to "take off the gloves." Tammany, he cried, was controlled, lock, stock & barrel, by Big Gambler Frank Costello, and Pecora was nothing but Costello's mouthpiece...
...broad-bottomed barges cast off from Nome's weather-beaten docks and tagged southward behind their tugs toward the Bering Sea. Townsmen ashore watched the cargoes of Air Force trucks, black oil drums and crated airplane parts disappear into the blue distance. The Air Force was leaving Nome, lock, stock & barrel. On the plains east of the city, Marks Air Force Base-once the hub of several satellite fields and home for 10.000 World War II troops-was deserted save for its housekeepers and the solitary comings & goings of commercial airliners. The little (pop. 1,852) Alaskan coastal city...