Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Funaro and Magraw dumped Conny Montana and Amy Gruber 6-1, 6-0, while kaufman and wood shut out Bamby Groff and Valery Troyansky...
...from a box of S & W prunes. It is quite a show: a cable breaks, and a worker falls from a great height, meeting mother earth with a steel beam on his chest; an elevator fire breaks out, and three other workers are fried to death. The job is shut down, but only temporarily, and the old folks at home are laying plans to go after the mogul himself...
...access to the press and to free elections--both were provided for in the agreement. Land control in the PRG-controlled sectors moved ahead, there were no more privileged large landowners. But in areas controlled by the Thieu regime, there were no reforms: newspapers were--and continue to be--shut down; the people in some villages on the border of PRG-sectors were kept from going to their farms not for their own protection, but because the Thieu regime was afraid of PRG influence...
...field of theater. Hundreds of cars came. It was a mess and got totally out of hand. They said they would throw out the students who did it. I knew the dean very well and I told him I did it and he told me to keep my mouth shut...
...secretive, sometimes smug management had determinedly followed outmoded policies. It failed to invest in modern suburban supermarkets but held on to too many small, low-profit central city stores that seemed mustily Dickensian compared with the competition. So Scott won the board's preliminary approval to shut down fully one-third of the chain's 3,500 stores...