Word: locked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rows back peering sourly through a cluster of elbows. He is the symphony musician - bored, frustrated and anonymous. So he didn't become the second Heifetz as everybody back in Glen Falls said he would. There was nothing else to do but join a big-city symphony, file lock-step onto the stage - no talking, please - and, at the nod of the imperious maestro, saw away mechanically at the Brahms First for the 101st time...
What the Prime Minister clearly needed was a way to shift attention from the vote. He came up with a dandy. Just as the House policemen were crying "Lock the doors!" in preparation for the vote, a news dispatch was passed down the Conservatives' Front Bench. What they read caught the Tories-and the nation-by surprise. Said one admirer of Wilson's fast footwork: "The press can only carry one banner headline...
...kicked the orbiter into its precise moon-bound path. Two antennas and four solar-power panels snapped out, giving the space craft a windmill look. Guidance sensors aligned it with the sun; some six hours later, a star tracker began hunting for Canopus. When the sensor repeatedly failed to lock onto the guidance star, ground controllers made do by using the moon instead...
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...many towns where Newhouse tries to take over a paper, its ownership is likely to be downright hostile. In Mobile, he was warmly received. The majority stockholders had been disturbed by paltry dividends, and they resented the hammer lock held on the papers by the local management. The stockholders were even more irked when management tried to squeeze the nearby Pascagoula Chronicle out of business...