Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seven protestors, including Helfand and Perkins, immediately took an elevator up to the 47th floor, where the office of Alastair Maitland, the British Consul, is located. The rest of the demonstrators, however, were forced to remain downstairs as security guards, realizing what was happening, shut down all the elevators...
This year, the Big Red does not even have an individual star to spice up the team routs. Cornell topped Rochester, 6-3, but has been shut out by Penn. Yale, Princeton and Army, Army was a 9-0 victim of Harvard back in December...
...Abouna group's first two patients were suffering from fulminating viral hepatitis, which had completely shut down their liver function. Death was only hours away when Abouna resorted to the use of baboons. The animals were given fatal doses of anesthesia. Their excised livers were then washed in order to remove, as much as possible, the proteins that might trigger a reaction in the patient. Finally, the patients' circulatory systems were hooked up to the blood vessels of the isolated livers, which rested at bedside in stainless steel chambers. While the patients' blood circulated through the baboon...
Hardly anybody calls it sabotage-yet. But last October somebody deliberately set fire to an assembly-line control box shed, causing the line to shut down. Autos regularly roll off the line with slit upholstery, scratched paint, dented bodies, bent gearshift levers, cut ignition wires, and loose or missing bolts. In some cars, the trunk key is broken off right in the lock, thereby jamming it. The plant's repair lot has space for 2,000 autos, but often becomes too crowded to accept more. When that happens, as it did last week, the assembly line is stopped...
...breifly shut Harvard down in 1969 were not only enemies to be checked; we were also jokes, pathetic Luddites trying to smash the fabric of the new American order without money or power or management skills. Our day, like Pusey's, had passed, and the future belonged to them, the smartest, most dynamic, most skillful group of technocrats the world had ever seen. Thus far, they are winning...