Word: padlock
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...chaos under the dictatorship of Idi Amin during the '70s. But Mugezi is not one of those fictional characters who report only what he can plausibly know or have experienced. He gives all the intimate particulars that occur during the wedding night of his father Serenity and his mother Padlock; notes the later occasion of his own conception and, near the end, provides a detailed account of his parents' deaths, even though their bodies are never found and their friends have no idea what happened to them...
...been coming here for 25 years. This is a place where I've made family," said longtime regular and Allston resident Dave Doyle. "I'm going to keep coming here until they padlock the door. This place has been a major part of my life...
...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...