Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arthur Hailey writes holding-pattern prose. He advances one of his homunculi three-and-a-half pages toward ruin, then puts him in a holding pattern and moves some other character a totter or two toward temptation. But just before the dread jaws of fee-fi-fo-fum snap shut, there is another shift of attention, and the reader must tremble in behalf of a third wretch who has been circling perdition for two chapters, waiting for permission to land...
...members complained that Brown tried to shut off all questions about the possibly "racist" implications of Herrnstein's article...
...Senate floor last week as Mississippi's John Stennis led a virtually solid front of Southerners to join Administration supporters in imposing cloture. The reason was that the issue was not race but the military. By the narrowest of two-thirds majorities, 61 to 30, the Senate shut off a filibuster by antiwar forces against the draft-extension bill. Having silenced debate, the Senate quickly passed the bill 55 to 30, ending one of the longest and angriest congressional controversies of the Nixon Administration...
...lost to the Knights for the third time in four years, 33-18. Brown, with its best backfield since the late '50's, was embarrassed by weak neighbor Rhode Island, 35-21--only the eighth time that has happened in 57 years. Columbia's best team since 1961 was shut out by Lafayette, 3-0. And so it went. Plus ca change, plus c'cst la meme chose...
...undermanned prison staff regained control of cell blocks B and C, confining about half the prisoners in their cells for the long ordeal. But some 1,200 inmates were in control of cell block D and the yard it faces. Locking gates and even welding some of them shut with equipment from the metal shop, they repulsed advancing guards and shredded the hoses of prison firefighting equipment...