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Word: shut (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Canaday Hall, the newest building in the Yard, will not have its hot water shut off this week or during the two-day spring vacation...

Author: By M. M. Jacobs, | Title: Cold Showers | 3/18/1976 | See Source »

...elaborate arrangement of patterns and designs, to a trivial if complex amusement, which is devoid of significance because it lacks any connection with human values. Thus American literary criticism has had little to offer those genuinely concerned with understanding the self and society, and consequently has been shut out of serious intellectual discourse...

Author: By Jonathan Zeitlin, | Title: Choice Critic | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...since Francisco Franco's death last November had the new regime of King Juan Carlos faced a grimmer spectacle of unrest than it did last week. The northern Basque province of Alava was in a vicious, rebellious mood. The provincial capital of Vitoria was completely shut down, and the industrial city's 180,000 inhabitants seethed with bitterness. Riot police sent in by the national government had shot dead three young demonstrators outside one of Vitoria's churches; at least 100 more citizens were wounded in the melee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Death in the North | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...onstage during rehearsal; tea and coffee are forbidden the Mormons. So are alcoholic beverages. Pianist Jose Iturbi narrowly avoided greater disaster when a bottle of Scotch broke on the floor of his Tabernacle dressing room. A kindly janitor cleaned it up, and kept his mouth shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Saints and Sinners | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...when Dave Bell gave the Crimson a 4-3 lead early in the third period, everybody shut up, and fast. Everybody, that is, save for the 500 or so Crimson supporters who made the trip, and who, along with an inspired Harvard band, were the only ones to go home happy...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: A Moment of Silence | 3/12/1976 | See Source »

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