Word: locks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When I get into the gate, it's instinct mainly. I hold both reins in one hand, crossed in my palm. I twist a forefinger around a lock of the horse's mane. I never have a tight rein because the horse would rear up. He has to have a free head, but you have to have that pull on your finger. You have to sense when the gate is going to spring. When I leave the gate, sometimes I take my finger off the horse right away, sometimes not. You keep the horse loose. Then, out of the gate...
...cars, OIdsmobile boasted of a dashboard transistor radio that could be taken out and used as a portable. Last week Oldsmobile sadly admitted that it was too portable. Across the U.S. the radios were being stolen at a fast clip as owners forgot to lock them in. Olds promptly devised a tougher dashboard lock and anti-jimmying device, which it will install on its cars from...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Jan. 21--Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold declared today the U.N. will remain the main arena for breaking the East-West dead-lock on disarmament...
...circ. 718,007) paid more than cursory attention to the sale, the answers seemed clear enough. Hard-headed Contractor McCloskey, who had pumped some $5,000,000 into the News in his three years of ownership, was unable to resist Annenberg's offer to buy the rising paper, lock, stock and debt. Said McCloskey: "It was an expensive luxury...
Increasing petty thefts in undergraduate dormitories have made it "extremely important" for residents to lock the doors of their suites before leaving for vacation, Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, Manager of Operating Services, urged last night...