Word: locked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italy, lawyers have protested that too many persons are imprisoned for long periods and, if they are later declared innocent, may not recover damages for false imprisonment. Even in Britain, where a man may obtain his release by merely promising to pay bail, judges have broad power to lock up persons whom they consider dangerous. That such a system can be abused has been dramatically demonstrated by South Africa, where the ruling white minority may imprison for an indefinite time persons accused of "terrorist activities...
...Brezhnev and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny (Brezhnev and other Soviet leaders were reportedly in the following car). In any event, the Soviets dismissed him as a "mentally disturbed" youth of about 20. It was a convenient label, since a favorite Soviet device for dealing with political dissenters is to lock them up in insane asylums...
Before this year, some girls could lock their rooms from the inside; however, locks on the outside of doors were considered to be a fire hazard. J. Boyd Britton, administrative Vice president of Radcliffe, made the decision that locks should be installed on the outsides of doors so that girls could lock their rooms when they left...
Earlier this year, the Radcliffe Administration planned to suggest that students might pay Buildings and Grounds to install locks if they wished. However, they decided that this was discriminatory. The college will pay the cost of lock installation, Mrs. Bunting announced Thursday...
...words were sticks and stones, and they hurt. In An Essay on Criticism, Pope skewered critics as those in whom "a little learning is a dangerous thing," and cautioned them in yet another unforgettable line: "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread." In The Rape of the Lock, he betrayed a loving scorn of women-and their suitors, himself included...