Word: locks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hurries across the stage, always one step ahead of the police. As prostitutes, gamblers, street vendors, con men and an intoxicated boxer, the actors recreate the Times Square atmosphere so well that Dean Epps might very well ask them to take a semester off and warn their roommates to lock up their valuables...
Upon learning of such things at a distance, most men feel not only revulsion, but also a proper urge to enact society's revenge. Lock the bums away forever. At the same time, they can still imagine what it feels like to be present at the atrocities, even for the briefest instance; every life has analogues of its own. The essential circumstance is that of the mob, always a terrifying entity, whatever its goal. One thinks of lynch mobs before rape mobs, but all mobs have the same appearances and patterns, the same compulsion to tear things down...
March 24, 9:40 a.m.--The lock on locker #669 at Dillon Field House was damaged by unknown means. Nothing was missing. No suspicious persons were seen and no arrests have been made...
...Harvard men's volleyball team put a virtual lock on its third straight New England Volleyball League championship last night, overwhelming rival Springfield...
...tough town fabled for the lock grip of its Democratic political machine, Washington campaigned vigorously against the party organization and sought to write its obituary. "By today's vote the Democratic Party has been returned to the people," he said. "It is all over for the machine," agreed Don Rose, a Democratic strategist who worked for Byrne in 1979. "Washington is not going to rebuild...