Word: locks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trapped in their room by a broken lock late Thursday afternoon, the four residents of Strauss C-32 escaped by a window...
Crossing into the U.S. near the Texas town of Del Rio, I spot an old mailbox that U.S. Customs has converted into a drug drop. DEPOSIT CONTRABAND HERE BEFORE YOU ENTER THE UNITED STATES reads a sign in language that seems more suitable for an antilittering campaign. The lock on the mailbox is rusty, and a spider has built a formidable web over the chute where any law-abiding, English-speaking drug smuggler would drop his neat little packet of cocaine or heroin. While the mailbox is an extreme example of bureaucratic wishful thinking, the larger U.S. approach...
VIRGINIA Former Governor Charles Robb is a lock...
...time a locksmith came and sawed off the lock on the door, a crowd had gathered outside her door, Flynn said. "They all started cheering, with cameras and everything. It was like the baby in the well." Flynn said that the lock on her door was replaced within a few hours...
...anyone seemed to have a lock on a gold medal this year, it was Soviet pole vaulter Sergei Bubka. He has virtually owned the event for the past four years, breaking the world record nine times and scoring ten of the 16 best jumps in the history of the sport. His real Olympic goal was not to beat the competition -- which seemed a foregone conclusion -- but to become the first man ever to soar over 20 ft., a threshold he had been flirting with all year...