Word: locksmith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bizarre and frightful contagion, no fewer than ten other young men, six inside Czechoslovakia and four elsewhere in Europe, set themselves ablaze in eight days following Palach's suicide. They included a 23-year-old Brno locksmith who burned himself in front of a memorial to Palach; a 24-year-old Czechoslovak serving time for robbery; and a 35-year-old Austrian dairy worker who had just been dismissed from his job. None apparently acted from political motives, and several had previous records of suicide attempts. Local authorities could only speculate that they thought they could somehow achieve Palach...
Brecht's vision of the theater as a classroom works ideally in Galileo. To the audience, the great astronomer plays teacher, a kind of intellectual locksmith picking at the rusty encrustations of habit, custom and tradition as he elucidates his proofs that the earth revolves around the sun. This Galileo is a glutton of food, wine and ideas. As one character says, he has "thinking bouts." As Brecht sees it, this very appetite is Galileo's fatal flaw. His desire to save his skin ranks above any devotion to a pure priesthood of science, any will to suffer...
...Bennett's dream of developing the vast mineral riches of the north is hydroelectric power, and in this, the premier has proved himself a locksmith with few peers. Under the Canada-U.S. Columbia River treaty, Bennett is building three massive storage dams on the Columbia that will hugely increase the hydro power that such U.S. dams as Grand Coulee can generate downstream. Half that extra power will be Bennett's, and he has already sold it to a consortium of U.S. power companies for a sum that more than pays for the dams. When Lyndon Johnson...
...client who was renting a home to St. Louis Cardinal Curt Flood, 26, it came as a shock to Finn that Flood was a Negro. Such a shock, in fact, that he snatched the key, threatening to shoot Flood if he took possession. With the aid of a locksmith, Flood moved in anyway, with his wife Beverly, 25, and their four children, to be greeted with cheers by practically every family on the block, and a home-cooked meal that moved Beverly to tears. "Bless you all," beamed Flood...
What is hurting Algeria most, however, is not the leaving of businessmen, farmers or even engineers, but the departure of the skilled technicians, the foremen and secretaries. In Oran it is almost impossible to find a mechanic, a locksmith or a crane operator. Entire districts are without telephone service because there are no European repairmen or linemen left. The teacher shortage is so desperate that there is doubt that the schools will be able to open in the fall, and the equally severe scarcity of doctors has raised the fear of epidemics. "You ask what is working in Algeria," said...