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Word: locks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opener of yesterday's doubleheader in the second week of the House football season, Quincy House demolished a helpless Currier crew, 15-0. The two victors of yesterday's games will lock antlers next Tuesday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland, Quincy Triumph | 10/22/1980 | See Source »

...Rippy has a hammer lock on being the third man," McCurdy said. "Regardless of who is first and second, he comes next...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Harvard Harriers Burn Big Red, 25-30 | 10/14/1980 | See Source »

...balmy. The highway is lit by a full moon. Suddenly, as the car crests a hill, there it is, just 50 yards ahead, a terrorist roadblock: two small foreign cars, parked across the pavement. With only a second to react, the driver lunges at the emergency brake to lock the rear wheels, then jams down hard on the brake pedal too. He jerks the steering wheel to the right. The rear of the car twists savagely in a 180° "bootleg" turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Virginia: Drive for Life | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...find their echoes here in Charlotte Rampling, Marie-Christine Barrault and Jessica Harper. Allen also appropriates Fellini's strategy of deflecting criticism by placing it in his film-in the mouths of buffoons. Predators and editors, gargoyles and groupies, all want a piece of his present and a lock on his future-his promise to make the kind of romantic comedies that established his cult, which for him means a return to the played-out past. He rejects this advice, but he can't escape it. He even dreams of encountering an extraterrestrial who tells him: "You want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Comic Master Goes for Baroque | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...attach themselves to the intruder's surface and help destroy the invader. They are highly efficient and selective; each antibody is so exquisitely designed that it matches up precisely with only one site on the invader or antigen, almost as if it were a key fitting into a lock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Quest for a Magic Bullet | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

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