Word: tumbler
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...agent who had planted the mike in the target office had tested the key, so the first barrier would yield. But the lock on the office door was a later model -pin and tumbler-and they would have to make its key on the spot ... "All right," Peter said curtly, "I don't want heroes, just the contents of the safe...
...meal comes with home-cooked bread; it was fresh and sweet. Beverages are coffee, tea, and cider. The cider ($.25) came in a small, three-quarters filled tumbler and wasn't cold enough...
Oscar and his pals can work fast because of a simple device known in the trade as a "slap hammer." The gadget is essentially a thin steel rod with a movable weight attached to it; inserted into a lock, it can pull the lock tumbler out of a car door in seconds...
...devout Methodist, he carried a church banner covered with such Christian symbols as a fish and chalice aboard Yankee Clipper. At the University of Texas, which he attended on a Navy scholarship, Texas-born Bean made the wrestling and gymnastic teams and met his wife Sue, a college tumbler. Like most of the astronauts, he likes to exercise (his favorite sport: surfing in the Gulf of Mexico). Calm, self-possessed and straightforward, he trained patiently for six years for his first space flight. He and his wife have two children...
...started out with him as a tumbler, we did a tumbling act for a while--he and I; another fellow joined us. I played the old Washington St. Olympia, here, we played the BFT Theatre, we played the Scollay Square Olympia, we played the Portland, Maine, we broke the act in here before we went to New York. We worked around here about 25-30 weeks and all through New England, and we got the act all set and finished, all ready for New York, when we went to New York with it we started working around New York...