Word: locks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sealed in her Washington bedroom by a paint-stopped lock, while her politically prognosticative husband partied at the Greek legation, blonde, handsome Mrs. Emil Hurja shouted and pounded until "the handsomest policemen you ever saw" arrived and freed...
...extract a 75-mm. shell casing from a semiautomatic breech, allow a split second for the gases to be blown out the muzzle, return the empty casing to its place in a rack beneath the breech, yank out a live shell, smack it in the breech, close the breech lock...
...Clarence Streit. Born in Missouri 45 years ago, one of the first U. S. soldiers to reach France after the U. S. declaration of war in 1917, he was attached to the U. S. Peace Delegation in Paris in 1918-19 (where one of his jobs was to lock up secret documents that diplomats carelessly left lying around). Demobilized, Clarence Streit remained in France, studied at the Sorbonne and Oxford, worked as a newspaperman, married a French girl, fathered a son and two daughters, covered the Riff war, wound up as the New York Times correspondent in Geneva...
...Regulations, Mrs. Nielsen said, are dangerous and undemocratic, have been used against labor to lock up leaders that employers wanted out of the way, in her view lead straight down the road to Fascism...
Crimson hopes were realized in only three weights. Captain Ted Scheenberg gave the meet a good start by throwing his man in 2:37 with a reverse Nelson and body lock. Dick Thomas outranked the Yale 145-pounder for a 6 to 3 referee's decision, while 175-pound Tom Lacey wrested a 5 to 1 decision from his opponent...