Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fears that if the Catholic Church does not start responding more directly to women, an increasing number of the very aware and highly talented newly autonomous women, including a large contingent of Radcliffe students, will permanently shut out the Church as a viable life influence, to both their and the Church's detriment. It is precisely because women within the Church have not been tainted with the positions and intoxications of male power that they offer the best hope of saving the Church from the increasing fragmentation and irrelevance that Catholics are experiencing...
This time the EPA did not wait for the weather to change. It asked U.S. District Court Judge Sam C. Pointer Jr. to order the 23 companies to shut down or drastically cut back production. The judge did just that. It was the first such order obtained under the emergency powers given the EPA by the 1970 Clean Air Act. Compliance was good if somewhat reluctant. Though by week's end a light wind and rain cleared the smog and the injunction was lifted, the order was an earnest of more injunctions to come...
Beverly habitually arrives at rehearsals with her part fully memorized, her score shut and her mind open. "I can ask her to try anything onstage," marvels Tito Capobianco, who has directed most of her successes at City Opera and whom Beverly regards as "her" director. She mugs, sings lying down, and once, in Buenos Aires, even danced the tango with six Argentine stagehands. All in the cause of easing tensions and clearing the way for creative work. "Beverly, was that an F and G in your part?" Conductor Aldo Ceccato once asked during a snarl-up in a recording session...
Yale's freshman soccer team shut out a lackluster Harvard squad yesterday in New Haven, 3-0. The Crimson freshmen had not lost to the Elis since...
...frustrations of her constituency, she will become the target of every change-oriented group in Cambridge--serious and kooky alike. Her time will not be her own and she may find it difficult listening to all her constituents equally. But there can be no question that she will not shut up. She is not awed by mean in Vaselined hair and Jordan Marsh suits and her presence will add the ingredient of excitement and confrontation of issues that it has so sorely lacked these past four years...