Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Andronike E. Janus, assistant director of athletics, responded to the petition yesterday, "Unless the IAB is mobbed, we'll stick to our guns" and keep the gym shut...
...reporter and he is subject to all the problems and trade-offs that face reporters when they deal with sources who need protection. In the FBI's case, these trade-offs are magnified. Ungar walks into an organization with a history of secrecy and silence, through 50 years shut tight to all investigative reporters. He starts asking questions and gets almost nothing but candid answers in return. Only a truly robot-like reporter comes out of that situation un-compromised, and Ungar is not a robot. His thankfulness manifests itself in overly-gracious characterizations of the low level agents...
...stretched for a look at the clock. 4:24 p.m. He said, "Aah, I gotta go," flipped his notebook shut and dashed out faster than he had come in. Behind him four or five onlookers stared up at the pillars and the ceiling, oblivious for once to the endless reams of Widener's file cards...
...will the strike do much damage for a while. The automakers, who get some 65% of their tires from the Big Four, have stockpiles that should last up to a month. Dealers of replacement tires should be able to hold out longer. Yet a long strike eventually could shut down the auto plants, dealing national production a crippling blow...
...kneels down and braces himself against the pillar with his elbow. His face is tense with wrinkles as he squeezes his left eye shut to focus with his camera eye. Beads of sweat are forming on his head and under his eyes while he holds this position and waits for the conductor...