It has been replaced by dead-bolt locks, security chains, ___ (1) ___ alarm systems and trip wires ___ (2) ___ up to a police station or private guard firm. Many ___ (3) ___ families have sliding glass doors on their patios, with steel bars ___ (4) ___ built in so no one can ___ (5) ___ the doors open. It is not uncommon, in the most ___ (6) ___ of homes, to see ___ (7) ___ on the windows small notices ___ (8) ___ that the premises are under ___ (9) ___ by this security force or that guard company. The lock is the new ___ (10) ___ of America. Indeed, a recent public-service ___ (11) ___ by a large insurance company ___ (12) ___ not charts showing how much ___ (13) ___ we are, but a picture of a child’s bicycle with the now-usual padlock ___ (14) ___ it. The ad pointed out that, yes, it is the insurance companies that pay forstolen goods, but who is going to pay for ___ (15) ___ from the Land of the Free to the Land of the Lock? Who is going to make the psychic payment for what the new atmosphere of ___ (16) ___ is doing to our way of life? For that is what has happened. We have become so used to defending ourselves against the new atmosphere of American life, so used to ___ (17) ___ , that we have not had time to think about what it may mean.