Word: padlock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Then there were the 77 soldiers who the chaplain had said had come to see him within just a few weeks, all begging for passage from purgatory. There was the Jamaican who affixed a padlock to his belt and started beating guards; the kid who was sleeping in the drill sergeant's office because he'd threatened to kill himself in front of a corporal...
...cable lock consists of a cable that loops through the slide at the top, threads down through the grip and is fastened at both ends by a padlock...
Added to the charges against the man, Joseph Macchiaruo, was possession of a deadly weapon--after police found a solid steel pipe, welded to a chain and connected to a padlock, on his person...
...tough laws, and the horror has increased and increased and increased," said former government spokesman Kevin McNamara. Given that the splinter group responsible for Omagh has already stopped operating, and that the IRA is calling for it to disband, Britain and Ireland may have arrived too late to padlock the stable door...
...time Ronald Reagan became President, Currie was so well entrenched that she and a handful of career bureaucrats all but controlled an agency that he had vowed to padlock. When he appointed a conservative Dallas lawyer named Thomas Pauken to head ACTION and "de-radicalize" the place, Pauken found he had to topple Currie first. "As long as she was sitting outside my office, I wasn't running the agency," he declares. So he demoted her. "Betty was surprised," he recalls. "She thought she had the place wired...