Word: locked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America, some corporations have tried to encourage migration back to the country. For example, McDonnell Douglas Corp. has five plants in Tennessee. Initially, job seekers were local residents, but within a month applications were pouring in from former Tennesseans fed up with city life. The Daisy Manufacturing Co. moved lock, stock and gunbarrel from Michigan to Rogers...
...House Committee has been putting up posters encouraging residents to lock their doors. "At first the signs were ignored, but as the thefts got more serious, more people began to lock up," Wilcox said. He added that in each of the recent thefts the room had been unlocked...
...Oskar, the memory lingered on. Four years after their separation, Alma heard that he had acquired a life-size doll that was painted to look like her. She reported: "The doll always lay on the sofa. For days on end Kokoschka would lock himself in and talk to no one but the doll. At last, he had me where he wanted me: helpless in his hand, a docile, mechanical tool." But she too remembered, and kept the fans always with her as affectionate mementos until her death in Manhattan...
...pigs to handle him, but there is not one solitary thing wrong with his intellect. Or his powers of observation. Quotations won't get it for showing Eldridge's Thought. To deal with his intellect and ideas, you have to bring your own, sit yourself down, and lock horns...
...commissioner of baseball. Last week, as the negotiators were about to call for yet another vote from the 700 members of the association-a process that would have taken at least two more weeks-Kuhn cut short a Florida vacation and flew back to Manhattan to offer a suggestion. Lock the door, he said succinctly, sit down and settle the damn thing. Both sides got the message. After a session that dragged on until 5 a.m., a settlement was made...