Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people on 600,000 teams in 141 countries-six more than belong to the U.N.-that is no minor claim. Indeed, a large part of the world takes time out for the Cup. Since the final rounds began in West Germany three weeks ago, Rio de Janeiro factories have shut down, and criminal activities in the city have hit an alltime low. In Rome, efforts to restore a moribund government were disrupted when three Socialist leaders walked out of negotiations to watch a match. In Australia, people stayed up all night to see broadcasts from West Germany...
...preppie just would not shut up. For days the preppie had been telling him how paranoid he had become. The preppie droned on and on; he appeared to listening, but actually heard very little of what the preppie said. It was a new-found talent, and it enabled him to cope...
...difference in the issue this year was the energy crisis: with a first semester ending before Christmas, the University could shut down for the entire month of January and, the reasoning went, save enormous amounts of fuel. But someone eventually pointed out that Harvard's fuel allotments are on a monthly basis, so that saving the entire January allotment would not help the February situation at all. The argument fell apart, and the council killed the calendar change permanently--apparently, unless someone comes forth with a compelling new reason...
...Belfast street corner last week. The message was an appeal to Protestants in Ulster's latest, and perhaps most serious crisis. A province-wide general strike brought business to a complete standstill, forced most of the province's 180,000 industrial workers off the job and shut down virtually all shops. Ulster was on the brink of economic paralysis...
...essential services who had U.W.C. "passes" were allowed through its checkpoints. For barricades, the militants used hijacked cars and trucks, telephone poles and paving stones. Traffic in Belfast and most other Ulster towns came to a standstill. Fruits and vegetables rotted in locked shops, and electricity shortages threatened to shut down sewage-treatment plants. In the countryside, farmers dumped thousands of gallons of milk because they lacked transport...