Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets had reason to be delighted. Kissinger has been able to shut them out of Middle East negotiations by holding talks bilaterally rather than at the formal Middle East peace conference in Geneva, to which Moscow is a party. But one implication of the Rabat decision is that the Arabs want the P.L.O. to be a participant in any peace conference...
What kind of team that will be depends on whether or not the Tigers can successfully shut off Harvard's high-scoring Lyman Bullard. The Jumbos managed to sit on Bullard and stifle the Crimson offense which had relied on the sophomore for the last four wins...
...work day was over, watching the tankers on New Haven Harbor turn slowly into black bugs as the sun went down behind Fisher's Island, while the man beside me, previously known to me only as a loquacious idiot, stood for half an hour stock-still with his mouth shut...
...these problems soon had a major effect on the DiGiorgio ranches, which began suffering losses. Consequently, the company began cutting back on planting, investment and production. By 1968, employment on one of its largest ranches had fallen from 2500 to 400. By 1970, the company had shut down its Sierra Vista ranch in Delano, costing the town 1500 jobs. Later the company shut down other ranches in the San Joaquin Valley...
...study, "The UFW took away all out rights, we can't work for the farmers where we have worked for years, husbands and wives can't work together, we have no say as to where we go. We can't complain. We are told to keep out mouths shut or we won't get an assignment. We are treated like sheep. We have no power at all, there is no such thing as freedom of speech. There is no election, there is no way for us to say what we like or don't like...