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...health. Buddy grew, learned to walk erect, romped with innocent menace around Mrs. Lintz's Brooklyn home with the taciturn, dour-faced ex-butcher. The baby grew up into 200 pounds of gorilla. Mrs. Lintz, who had a cage waiting, decided that the time had come to lock Buddy up. The job fell to Kroener. Wooden-faced, he slammed and locked the cage door...
...Americans were there to get guarantees against use by the Axis of any French possessions in the Caribbean. Purpose: to lock up the French warships in the area-the aircraft carrier Béarn and the cruiser Emile Berlin at Martinique, the cruiser Jeanne D'Arc at Guadeloupe-and some 100-odd weather-damaged fighter planes...
...Dear old Tom! We got to be great friends afterward. We smashed a bookcase. I found myself inside it with Tom on top of me, and then it went over. It should have killed us. ... At the end I got a good shoulder lock on Tom, and I bent him back . . . until I heard him groan. . . . Then I had sense enough...
...taking sentries, advises Mr. Levy, the back is the best approach. If that is not possible, the guerrilla covers the sentry with his revolver, steps on his foot, unbuttons his tunic and jerks it down over his arms to lock them. "You may slap his ears with the revolver barrel, to intimidate him. . . . You should also drop his trousers to lock his feet...
...angry." "You will have to discipline your cook," said the Colonel. "I can't," said the Mayor, "she'll quit." "She can't quit," said the Colonel. "Then she'll throw water," said Dr. Winter. "I could have her shot," said the Colonel, "I could lock her up ... [but] we are instructed to get along with your people. . . . Please cooperate with us for the good...