Word: locks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...artisan mixing a bath of bamboo pulp magically raises a net-like sheet and suddenly has produced a single sheet of fresh white paper. An architect carves, without pattern, small pieces of wood which lock together without adhesive to form the outline of a model of elaborate Chinese architecture. A kite-maker chats animatedly with a Chinese friend about the strange American visitors she has experienced that day; all the while her hands file meticulously at the thin strips of wood which will flow in symmetric perfection as the body of vividly colored kites...
...series, which was born in the make of a Supreme Court decision that now allows NCAA schools to negotiate their own television contracts, will lock off its second season of 10 Ivy broadcasts September 21, when Cornell visits Franklin Field to take on the Penn Quakers...
...equally possible that Harvard locks the Dexter Gate at night to prevent thieves from entering the Yard. For surely only bright, young Harvard students are intelligent enough to walk to the next gate along Mass. Ave. to gain entry to the historic quadrangle. Don't you know at least 10 thieves who see the lock on the gate, causing them to turn around and give up on trying to get into Harvard...
...Even more adamant was another powerful Likud member, Industry and Trade Minister Ariel Sharon, the former Defense Minister who planned and carried out the invasion of Lebanon. Said Sharon: "It is unimaginable that after the release of the most terrible murderers . . . we should keep the Jewish underground prisoners under lock...
...traffic control, but they were unable to launch another that could have assisted the Defense Department in tracking submarines. Reason: the apparent failure, possibly due to weak batteries, of a microswitch on the door of the canister housing the satellite. Other frustrations included a sticky latch on an air lock in the Spacelab, which prevented mission specialists from maneuvering the Very Wide Field Camera outside to survey ultraviolet radiation from interstellar sources, and a failed effort to monitor crew members' urine production in a weightless environment...