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Word: shut (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...wish Greg will shut his mouth...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Among School Children | 10/31/1974 | See Source »

...poems because, in the true spirit of writing "anything," she expressed her desire for all of the boys in the class to jump in the lake. I didn't let anybody know about Rita, but ripples of rumor turned into waves of discontent: "I wish Rita with/her fat self shut her/garbage mouth and/turn into a fat white rat." Now I attempted to curb this bickering with a wish poem containing a color and a T.V. show. Most of these kids spend a lot of time watching television; some of them are allowed to stay up late because their parents just...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Among School Children | 10/31/1974 | See Source »

...audience on all four sides of the set it's impossible to avoid featuring the backs of too many heads for too long. A few fluid scenes benefit from the extra freedom of movement a lack of directional focus provides, but most of the time the audience is entirely shut out of one side or another of the drama. Not many student shows attend as sensitively as this one to gesture and detail--it's too bad that so much of it can't be seen...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Leaving the Spuds | 10/31/1974 | See Source »

...Dartmouth defense is a tough, poised unit, with on glaring weaknesses. The linebacking corps is the best in the Ivies, and should shut off plays of the sort that Tom Winn scored on against Cornell last week...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Harvard Journeys to Hanover to Face Dartmouth in Crucial Football Contest | 10/26/1974 | See Source »

...will start taking opponents lightly, and then the team will hit the skids and lose every contest the rest of the season. Loose talk of Harvard's early abilities might have the same effect as a team portrait on the cover of Sports Illustrated. So keep your fat trap shut...I know I will...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Rock Steady | 10/26/1974 | See Source »

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