Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dawn on April 21, a small group of junior-level officers executed "Plan Prometheus" -a NATO contingency plan designed to prevent a Communist takeover of Greece-and placed the country under military rule. All communications except the army's wireless were immediately shut down, thousands of leftists were rounded up and jailed, and gatherings of all kinds were indefinitely outlawed...
...plans to shut up the pro-war speakers Friday are both wrong and stupid. By mimicking opponents who are totalitarian in outlook, our radicals suggest that the whole choice lies between the totalitarians in power and those lusting after it. The "masses," unless starving, have always chosen "the oppressor they know and love...
Born in Wise, Va., and raised in Michigan, Scott spent much of his childhood "being terrified of my father." Scott's father, George D., was a coal mine surveyor when the Depression shut down most of the mines in the area. He moved his family to Pontiac, Mich., where, he brags, "I worked my ass off and the family never missed a meal. It was drive, drive, drive." Scott's mother Helen (called "Honey") was an elocutionist who gave public poetry readings and occasionally contributed verse to the local papers. She spent hours teaching her son how to read stories...
...Harvard shut off heat and light in the building, which had a poor electric wiring system, and then asked the City's Health Department to determine whether the women might be in danger...
...tournament was a disappointment for the Crimson, especially for All-American captain Joe Cavanagh who, ending his career just eight points behind Babby Cleary's record 195 points, was shut out in his last game as a Harvard player...