Word: locks
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Before last night's competition, Harvard, Yale and Princeton (each 3-0) were in a three-way lock for first place in the Ivy League...
...G.I.G.N. unit moved. Approaching the plane from the rear and sides so they could not be seen, three groups of commandos in black ski masks and combat fatigues advanced atop three mobile loading ramps. The first unit, led by Favier, headed for the forward right door, opened its lock and stormed inside, guns blazing. Holed up in the cockpit, the hijackers met them with what Favier later described as "a wall of gunfire" through the door. "It was hell in there...
...agent Aldrich Ames was a Soviet mole. Even worse, large parts of the CIA's operation bored Woolsey, and its insular culture frustrated him. He once complained to an associate that the agency "needed a psychiatrist, not a manager." Senior agency hands were miffed when he put a cipher lock on the door to his already heavily guarded office suite, signaling to them that he wouldn't be accessible. Months ago a senior White House official concluded, "Woolsey has been miscast...
With the obsolescence of the No.2 pencil, one of this nation's major industries will certainly collapse. Graphite production will disappear except for the minuscule amounts needed for lock lubricants. Lumber yards will fall silent as thousands of glistening yellow and blue No.2 pencils with their red rubber erasers sit idly on stationers' shelves...
Just days after lead defense attorney Robert Shapiro promised to limit statements to the media, his side is apparently leaking again. Quoting defense sources, the Associated Press reported today that prosecutors drilled out the lock on Nicole Brown Simpson's safe-deposit box and seized photographs of her with a bruised forehead and injured left eye. The pictures show injuries Ms. Simpson had after police were summoned to the Simpson home in 1989. Simpson pleaded no contest to spousal battery in that incident. Prosecutors are expected to argue that the photos show a pattern of spouse abuse by O.J. Simpson...