Word: locks
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Driven by as yet unfathomed forces deep within the earth, the plates move no more than a few inches a year, bumping, jostling and grinding against each other with incredible force. These movements can have enormous consequences. Opposing plates often lock, so that great stresses begin to build up. When the pressures become so large that they exceed even the strength of the rock, the earth fractures, frequently along "faults" where earlier breaks have occurred. Like a wound spring suddenly uncoiling, the earth releases its stored energy in shocks that may be felt far beyond the fracture. This...
EVEN AMONG mass murderers, the case of Theodore Robert Bundy stands out, the most grimly fascinating of them all. While all psycho-killers lock us in a morbid, white-knuckled attention, Bundy's story seemed especially intolerable and seductive...
...future of Alaskan lands was also one of the most contentious environmental questions of the day. Conservationists maintained that Alaska's timbered coastline and tundra needed strong federal protection. Developers and businessmen, supported by Alaska's top elected officials, argued that the Federal Government should not lock up virgin land before its soil and mineral wealth could be assessed. After almost four years of warfare over how to balance economic and environmental interests, Congress last week finally passed an Alaska land bill...
...Gravy-Sucking Bulldogs," read the crimson banner above the Union mantlepiece. "Impale Yale" proclaimed hundreds of crimson baseball caps. "Lock Yale in the Stocks" declared thousands of crimson placards. And as a swarm of crimson balloons soared to the ceiling of the Freshman Union at yesterday's Yale game pep rally, one word characterized the scene, and it was not "blue...
...have drifted away from Anderson, however, McKee is afraid that the independent cannot win. Says he: "If I was in a vacuum, if I didn't know about the polls, I'd go ahead and vote for him. But I feel so strongly that I want to lock Carter out, that if I have to vote for Reagan, that's what I'll do. But I'm still basically undecided. I feel I have worse choices this year than ever before...