Word: locked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parietal regulations cost money to enforce and are a damned nuisance because they lock all the gates of the Houses like a prison so you can't get in or out conveniently...
Once upon a time, Chicken-lichen went into the woods to look for meat, and an acorn fell upon her poor head, so she cried: "The sky is falling down!" She told Hen-len who told Cock-lock, who told Duck-luck, who told Drake-lake, who told Goose-loose, who told Gander-lander, who told Turkey-lurkey. And on their way to tell the King, they met Fox-lox, who offered to take them to the Palace. Instead, he ate them all up. Moral: Use Your Head, Else a Fox May Pluck Your Feathers...
That night Holter went home and stared at his drawing board. He drew the design of a valve with two fins that opened and shut like the gates of a canal lock. But what to make it of? Holter began a frantic search for a suitable material. He worked evenings and weekends, got only three or four hours' sleep a night. The valve had to be durable. It must be inert, so as not to corrode or cause reactions in the blood. While Holter worked, surgeons operated again, put in a temporary tube in the hope of keeping...
...lean to the Dodgers, but my wife is a Yankee fan"). He pointedly omitted to invite Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy to the speakers' stand at Milwaukee's Marquette University, not even mentioning his name. Along Nixon's way in Milwaukee a placard proclaimed: LOCK...
...Marshes. The biggest waterway customer of all is the booming Gulf Coast oil industry, which last year shipped out some 25 million tons of petroleum products, more than half of all the waterway's traffic. From New Orleans' Harvey Lock southward, the water is lined solid with oil activity-war-weary landing craft being converted into tenders for offshore drilling rigs, big yards piled high with pipe, well-cementing companies, plants where the giant offshore rigs are fabricated. At intervals, veinlike side canals branch off into the marshes, where oilmen have dredged passageways to float equipment into their...