Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gathered, attracted by the klieg lights swooping over Cambridge, and by Robert Blake, Man of the Year. Blake, who says he's "never won nuttin' like dis before", leans out the window and waves to his teenage fans. After a while he is pulled back inside, and the window shut. Those within have paid to laugh; serious adulation is out of place...
...waiting two and a half hours for their heartthrob, Blake, to emerge. Now they besiege the well-guarded door: "Please just tell Mister Blake t' go t' the' window, just tell him there's a lotta kids out here wanta see him 'n take pichas, please..." The door is shut on their pleading. "Are you going to tell Blake he's got fans outside?" an uninitiated bystander asks. The tall toothy club member playing footman at the door raises his Aryan eyebrows. "Are you kidding?" he laughs shortly, a watchdog bark. Kitty would never have made it through that door...
...Cambridge Water Department's repairs on the hydrant, which was hit by a car sometime in January, have been underway since Monday. "We had to dig up the street to put a gate on the hydrant, so we have to shut off the water," said Frank Misener, water maintenance foreman...
...into the fabric of workaday America so subtly that only on occasion do people realize how important it has become. The U.S. Postal Service got away with raising postal rates at the end of the year after only a moderate amount of protest; but when the agency simultaneously shut down 2,400 coin-operated copiers in post offices (after complaints from private copy-service interests), public outrage was strong enough to have most of the machines restored. Much of the evidence that toppled Richard Nixon and his Watergate conspirators came from photocopied documents leaked to the press or uncovered...
None of the foil competitors did for that matter. John Major lost two of his three bouts, and although Bennett and Gene Vastola both came away from the match with 2-1 records, a couple of shut-out performances would have helped matters immensely...