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Word: padlock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...caustic powder. When narcotics agents discovered the cache last Friday night in a warehouse in Queens, N.Y., they had to call in hazardous-waste specialists to handle the material. Total amount seized: as much as 5 1/2 tons. Only five weeks earlier, police had broken open a $6 padlock on the door of a warehouse in suburban Los Angeles and discovered 21.4 tons of cocaine, the largest U.S. cache ever grabbed. All told, authorities estimate, they will have seized 85 tons of coke this year, a 55% increase over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supply-Side Scourge | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...Somerville Theatre in Davis Square reopened yesterday one week after a lease dispute prompted the building's owner to padlock its doors, but the historic cinema's operator said he may have to close permanently at the end of the year...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: Somerville Theatre Reopens | 1/20/1989 | See Source »

Forward: Mara Yale, Brown. (And I don'tmean Mara Brown, Yale.) One could go over everypossible Freudian or anti-Freudian implication ofhaving one university's name on the front of theuniform and another on the back. Wonder if there'ssomeone in her family named Eli or Padlock...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: The Name Game | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

...laughed at the irony as I crammed for my finals. Late that night when I left the library I tried to get out to Mass. Ave. by the same gate but it was locked shut "Depart to Serve Better Thy Country and Thy Kind" was the statement above the padlock, and that too struck me as an appropriate coincidence...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger president, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/1/1984 | See Source »

University Police Sgt Larry Fennelly said yesterday that security guards in the Yard will mark illegally parked bikes with a tag warning the owner that the bike will be immobilized with Harvard's answer to the "Denver Boot" -an additional padlock if the offense is repeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Will Lock Up Bicycles Blocking Ramps for Disabled | 10/7/1983 | See Source »

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