Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Guatemala City when Genaro Castro was jolted awake by the thunderously loud rumble of buckling earth and masonry. Grabbing his terrified and screaming child, he stumbled over the shifting floor of his adobe house to the door. A pressure beyond his frantic strength held it shut. While he was still grappling with the door, the front wall of his home crashed outward into the street, leaving Castro and his son standing exposed but unharmed. They had just survived one of the century's most destructive natural disasters...
...Crimson increased their margin of victory by taking the number eight and nine matches decisively, Scott Mead shut out his Princeton opponent, 3-0, and at number nine, Ted Humphreyville took...
...Peanuts has long twitted such current topics as alienation and sexism. But over the years Li'l Abner began spouting right-wing boilerplate, and Dogpatch has degenerated into a flaccid strip of fools. Kelly died in 1973; his widow Selby, who struggled admirably to keep Pogo going, shut shop last year. As for Peanuts, Schulz's kids are still too wrapped up in security blankets and warm puppies to say much about the pressure of events...
...Shut off hot water in rest rooms...
...Garrity's most bothersome preconception is that the city's financial crisis is not real--he doesn't realize that if his orders are given highest priority other programs have to be shut out," he said...