Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...denounced student demonstrators as "the new barbarians"; when swarms of demonstrators tried to "shut down" Washington last May Day, he approved the massive police roundups as a form of "qualified martial law." He also argued that the Government had a perfect right to engage in surveillance of any citizen, adding that "selfdiscipline on the part of the Executive Branch will provide an answer to virtually all of the legitimate complaints against excesses of information gathering." He agreed entirely with those who thought the Warren court had been too indulgent toward suspected criminals...
Americans tend to think of Europeans above the peasant level as highly sophisticated. Still, season after season, Broadway imports some foreign shows of such pristine simple-mindedness that they could not be fobbed off on a shut-in from Cucamonga...
...freshman soccer team set up three slick goals early on, then petered off in the second half, but still shut out the weak Exeter varsity 3-0 at Exeter Saturday...
...inning, the Orioles seemed afflicted by some sort of night blindness when the Pirates brought in Relief Pitcher Bruce Kison, 21, a sidearming rookie brought up from the minors in July. Lean and whippy as a fungo bat, the 6-ft. 4-in. Kison allowed only one hit and shut out the Oriole musclemen for the next six innings. The Pirates, led by Stargell, Centerfielder Al Oliver and the irrepressible Clemente, pushed across two runs of their own in the first inning and another in the third to tie things up. Then, with a runner on third and two outs...
Sparked by another Robertson home run, the Pirates sent McNally to the showers in the fifth inning. Pittsburgh Starter Nelson Briles stayed on to shut out the Orioles 4-0 with a nearly flawless two-hitter...