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Word: shut (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, Carter is showing increasing irritation with aides who seem unprepared or uncertain. After hearing several high-level staffers in the Oval Office de bate how he should announce his energy policy, Carter angrily shut off the discus sion and bluntly ordered, "Get your act to gether." Now, say aides, he intends to put similar pressure on top-level officials out side the White House. Among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Advice and Dissent | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...really looked for it the same way as for oil because earlier there was no market and later prices were set so low that there was no incentive. We still have to sort out nuclear. It is likely that a number of plants now operating will have to be shut down for a period, and new reactors will be delayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: An Oil Crisis: True or False? | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

Despite Harvard's manifest riding and clearing superiority, hard luck (Gordie Nelson hit the post three times to give him a total of seven pipe shots in two games) and Eli perseverance combined to shut out the Crimson in the third period, while Yale crept back to a slight 10-7 deficit...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Laxmen Quickstick Elis, 13-9; Crimson Raises Record to 7-2 | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...injured, prompted a mass meeting at Memorial Church that called the first three-day strike of classes on April 10. Two thousand students--including many "moderates," who the day before had helped demonstrate against the SDS takeover, holding signs saying "SDS does not represent Harvard" --voted overwhelmingly to shut the University down...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The Strike as History | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

Senior captain Gordie Gardiner expects that the poor start will provide the Bruins with an extra incentive to nail the Crimson. "They are in a make it or break it situation. They have the potential and are going to be coming at us early, so we have to shut them down early," Gardiner says...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Heavies Meet Bruins Today In Season's First Home Race | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

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