Word: vaulting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mosler Safe Co. admits that no safe is burglarproof and 70% can be cracked in less than 20 minutes. As an alternative, Rosberg suggests spending $25 to rent a safe-deposit box. But even that does not offer total protection. Three weeks ago, burglars broke into a Manhattan bank vault and escaped with the contents of 290 safe-deposit boxes...
...from A Shot in the Dark when Clouseau stumbled through a roomful of guests in evening dress, out through an open French window and sailed through the air to land in a pond below, the inspector's uncanny Sang-froid has never faltered. Whether failing to pole vault a castle's moat or skimming across the Paris rooftops in a disguise that has somehow inflated like a balloon, or setting his nemesis, Chief Inspector Dreyfus, into paroxysmal eye twitchings. Inspector Clouseau has never wavered in his conviction that he is the world's greatest detective. It is this blithe, impenetrable...
...pole vault, sophomore Dave Randall led the Crimson with his second place finish and a personal best, vaulting 4.3 meters...
...extract unused uranium 235 and plutonium. But retreating nuclear fuel this way also produces highly radioactive liquid wastes that must be stored indefinitely. The French now refrigerate the waste and store it in double stainless-steel tanks, sheathed in reinforced concrete then hermetically sealed in a reinforced concrete vault, and buried several meters below ground...
...Pole vault--1. Yates (NU) 13-6; 2. Randall (H) 13-6; 3. Chandler...