Word: locking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every word of it," replied Ike. It was another "No"-but every time he said it, more & more Democrats hopefully interpreted it as "Maybe." Said Florida's Senator Claude Pepper: "He may be pulling the door a little closer to him, but I didn't hear the lock click...
...Late. Telling testimony came from Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, whose report on his visit to China last summer is still under lock & key at the State Department. Two years ago, said Wedemeyer, economic help might have been enough for China. "Today, it's too late. ... I wouldn't send $200 million to China unless I sent military aid to protect it. ... We must think in terms of blood as well as treasure. ... If we don't take appropriate steps, we are going to pay in blood. I don't think dollars alone will stop...
...trip to Europe. In New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt (shown as a pipe smoker on TIME'S 13th cover) had returned from convalescence to take up a fruitless job as head of the American Construction Council. In Moscow, Joseph Stalin† was quietly getting his hammer lock on the Communist Party. In Ahmadabad, Gandhi, jailed, was finding words which were to become truth to scores of millions...
...costumed duel-to-the-death in which "the two antagonists lock wrists . . . their sweat-drenched faces only an inch apart . . . and swap talk: 'Norman dog! Anglo-Saxon lilies will grow over thy bones ere yon sun sets...
Anachronism. In Hunnebostrand, Sweden, after a little reflection on the total lack of local crime, the town fathers auctioned off the jail's equipment-lock, stock and blankets...