Word: locks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little man had sent his wife a lock of hair and a long fingernail clipping. This is the custom of Japanese who expect to die. Last week, under klieg lights that gleamed on his shaven head, Hideki Tojo smiled and nodded as sentence was passed upon...
After more than 21 years (7,829 days) as Canada's Prime Minister, 73-year-old William Lyon Mackenzie King was bowing out. At his final press conference last week he looked ill. His lined face had a sickly flush, and the thin lock of grey hair that slipped over his right temple made him seem older than his years. His hands trembled as he toyed with the black ribbon of his pince-nez. His voice was unusually low, and sometimes he seemed to be groping for the right word...
Artzybasheff's Id must have been working overtime when he gave Dr. Menninger a key three-sixteenths of an inch greater than the height of the keyhole [TIME, Oct. 25], The key to the problem, while not yet quite a solid, will fit the lock, when found...
...wife, she said, 'Can I get down that mountain to see a show every night?' When I said no, she said 'No.' " His office is in a corner of the depot. Gus explained: "I've got a table and two chairs. Nothing to lock up except the cash drawer, and I wouldn't do that except you're supposed to." During the war, though, Marshall Pass had a brush with the enemy. Said Gus: "I don't like to mention his name. He's in Leavenworth now. He was up there...
Down the streets of Hingham, Mass. one day last week marched five little boys in lock step, gloomily chanting, "The last mile . . . the last mile." Last week, over most of the U.S., boys & girls were grudgingly trudging back to school...