Word: locking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left no doubts as to which side he had picked, he vetoed the Taft-Hartley labor bill. Harry Truman had chosen the Left side of the line. He had followed the advice of Administration labor specialists and his close adviser, Clark Clifford. He had bought labor's case, lock, stock & barrel; on many points his vehement, sharply worded message to Congress (see col. 3) squared exactly with the analysis of Lee Pressman, the C.I.O.'s able counsel, a Communist-line leftist...
...estate with great fountains illumined by his name in electric lights, and a $1,300,000 income from gullible patients who insisted on being grafted with goat glands (at $750 an operation). Fishbein observes that the only thing to do with "great charlatans of the Brinkley type" is to lock them up, but thinks that the public's gullibility is probably incurable...
...slum neighborhoods, the runt gets picked on. "I had to fight to stay alive," Billy recalls, "and I always lost." But he always came back for more. One day he came back with a heavy lock dangling at the end of a strap. He knocked out two of his attackers and the rest beat it. Billy learned the lesson: plainly, all men are not created equal-but there are equalizers...
Those horrible little imps who badger bewildered ball players were after Stan Musial. They lock-stepped up & down his bat and chanted in his ear: "You're in a slump . . . you're in a slump...
Blinking and snarling in the glare of publicity, the American Communist Party put in a miserable week. The House Un-American Activities Committee was holding hearings on a bill to outlaw the Communists lock, stock & barrel...