Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subsidiaries violated antitrust laws by attempting to use Federal Communications Commission regulations to force the Name Caller off the market. The suit also contends that the telephone companies threatened to suspend the phone service of retailers if they continued to sell the device. Indeed, the telephone companies can legally shut off service to any phone user who hooks up a device himself...
...Says Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon and now a professor of engineering at the University of Cincinnati: "I remember on the trip home on Apollo 11 it suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." To Apollo 8's Bill Anders, seeing the earth from out there evoked "feelings about humanity and human needs that I never had before." Tom Stafford...
When the last Justice walks in (it is considered discourteous to be even a minute late), the oak door is shut. By long tradition, the Justices then shake hands all around. Two guards are posted in the anteroom to ensure that the proceedings are undisturbed. If contact with the outside world is necessary, William Rehnquist, the junior Justice, will open the door slightly to hand out or receive a written message...
...great secret to his success: in his own words, it is "singleness of purpose." Says he: "Basically I'm shy, but I can talk to people or go on television okay by concentrating on the subject. That's what happens in a ball game. I just shut everything else out." To hear others tell it, he does the same thing before and after a game. Says Owner Robbie: "From July until the end of the draft, that man devotes every waking moment to football...
...Eyes shut, up on stage, Reverend Ike is having a vision: "I see myself . . . successful-prosperous-with money-and now, in my imagination, I open my . . . bankbook. Wowwwww! Gee. I paid all my bills and still I have that . . . terrific balance. Boy . . . that's a sharp car . . . It rides so easily: zooop! And now, here I am . . . on a . . . vacation. Here I am, on this beautiful beach . . . the water . . . coool . . . and later . . . room service? You have any good steaks down there? Yes . . . send up a nice T-bone . . . and a nice salad . . . and . . . a strawberry shortcake...