Word: locks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lawrence Seaway, where grain and industrial goods leave the American and Canadian heartland on the way to destinations around the world. Last week the artery linking Lake Ontario and Lake Erie was suddenly choked off when a concrete wall in one of the Welland Canal's eight locks collapsed. A section of lock No. 7 slammed into the side of the Liberian-registered Furia, a ship carrying 16,000 tons of wheat from Milwaukee to Alexandria, Egypt. Nine other vessels were trapped inside the canal; 21 were stranded on the Lake Ontario side waiting to enter; an additional eight coming...
Eight hours after the wall collapsed, workers refilled lock No. 7 so the Furia could be floated out of the rubble. Gigantic braces were then installed to shore up what remained of the canal's retaining wall, and engineers assessed the damage. Authorities said that repairs could take between three and four weeks. Owners lose between $5,000 and $20,000 a day operating idle, loaded vessels, and some of them began furloughing crews and tying up their ships. Meanwhile, port directors feared that seaway customers might switch to East Coast and Gulf ports in the future. Said Duluth, Minn...
...looks like a table of contents in which Calvino reveals that what had seemed like a zigzag wandering from beach to shop to zoo is actually a highly formalized pattern. Calvino assigns to each chapter a combination of the numbers one, two, and three, like the combination of a lock. Each number corresponding to a different kind of experience. Yet even as he lets the Reader peek into the control room of the observatory, Calvino is playing games. At the end of this story of a man trying to order the world, Calvino unveils an ordering of the story itself...
...state, if the St. Louis Cardinals were to yield the National League's East division, they pretty much had to lose three straight games to the New York Mets, and they pretty nearly did. Cardinals Manager Whitey Herzog rearranged Ace John Tudor's date with Darth Gooden only to lock Tudor and well-bred Yalie Ron Darling into a 0-0 death grip, broken like a windowpane on an eleventh-inning Darryl Strawberry home run that, except for the stadium clock being digital, put spectators in mind of Roy Hobbs. Naturally, Gooden won the second game, his 24th victory...
...commentary--call it what you will--Joshua is mediocre schlock Schlockhas many relatives, easily understood by attaching a prefix to define precisely the derived form's relationship to the tradition. I cite several of the most exemplary: rock-schlock (Spinal Tap), cock-schlock (Porky's has this covered) and lock-schlock (prison classics like the oh-so-shameful The Longest Yard...