Word: clamming
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...that Harvard's athletic department personnel, Watson and coach Joe Restic included (not to mention an entire football team) have been left holding the bag for an extremely embarrassing situation. Curry's indiscretions, whatever they may have been, and now those of officials who are telling everybody to clam up until the storm blows over have left Harvard athletics in an unwanted and unhappy predicament...
...June 1975, Roselli was called to testify before a special Senate Intelligence Committee that was looking into the excesses of the CIA. Customarily, members of the Mafia clam up when they get within 100 miles of a Senate committee. Roselli not only talked-he provided the details of a startling story...
Opponents of the proposal say that educational aid should be directed specifically at lower and lower-middle income groups. This, they clam, would be a more effcient use of the $1.1 billion the proposal will cost by fiscal...
Every summer the New York art scene shuts tight, like an irritated clam. The artists vanish to East Hampton, Brooklyn or Bogotá; many of the commercial galleries, both uptown along the axes of Madison Avenue and 57th Street, and downtown in SoHo, do not reopen until September. All the same, there is as much going on in Manhattan this summer as in many other U.S. cities at the height of their art season...
...Hinduism and Buddhism, Hubbard announced that Thetans are reincarnated over trillions of years, which meant that there were aeons of engrams to be erased. For Scientologists, truth became stranger than science fiction. Hubbard's explanation of why someone might have difficulty crying: he was once a primordial clam whose water ducts had been clogged with sand...