cotter

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As the U.S. cotter pin in the United Nations, Lodge was given Cabinet status and a large voice in U.S. policy�and grew in stature to measure up to both.

From Time Magazine Archive

As far as anyone could determine, both tragedies resulted from faulty cotter pins, only an inch or two long.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ring is attached to a light cable which jerks out two cotter pins freeing the flaps of the canvas 'chute-pack.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jaws adjust to open wide, making easy work of bending the legs of new cotter pins and loosening large nuts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Maybe it was carelessness; but there would have been trouble when the cotter shook out if Walthew hadna' heard her knocking.

From The Coast of Adventure by Bindloss, Harold