Word: locks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems that Catliff, despite a damaged knee, is still head and shoulders above just about every other college soccer player around. With five goals already, Catliff is a lock to surpass last year's Harvard scoring leader (Lane Kenworthy, who had six) and has a shot at the Crimson single-season record...
...victory the Crimson had been looking for ever since 1978--the last year Harvard triumphed over Columbia, and the first year of the Lions' incredible eight-season lock on the Ivy League crown...
...wait. There are still a lot of tricks to be learned. Any biker worthy of his wheels knows the "Vander roll," a forward somersault over the handlebars as you pull the bike along behind you. Then there is the "cherry picker," in which you lock the brakes and bounce on one wheel as if the bike were a pogo stick...
...enforcers unanimously grumble that drug dealers, even when convicted, are back on the streets peddling their poison in a few days. The lack of jail cells in which to lock them up is so severe that New York Deputy Police Chief Francis Hall contends that "we have to stop thinking of traditional prisons. We can house literally thousands in barracks-type facilities." Even if that were done, prosecutors complain that a drastic shortage of judges would still result in quick release of drug pushers. Under New York State law, a defendant charged with a misdemeanor, as most drug sellers...
...Delta Queen came to Red Wing the first night out from St. Paul; no stop was scheduled, but a hopeful crowd, some of them sporting handmade posters, had gathered at a nearby lock. When Grechko saw them, he couldn't resist their enthusiasm. As the paddle-wheel steamboat rested in the lock, he climbed across from a starboard deck onto the concrete bank and began shaking hands, accepting pats on the back and handing out small mementos from the Soviet Union, mostly pins and buttons that called for universal peace and an end to the arms race, mostly in Russian...