Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comparable subcommittee in the House was addressed by David Fradin, 20, an aeronautical engineering student at the University of Michigan, who heads a national group of technically oriented students who back the plane. "We are the serious students, the ones who go to class when others seek to shut down the school," Fradin said. "We will not give up our dreams of peace, clean environment and social progress brought about with the aid of aerospace...
Three weeks ago, having exhausted its peremptory challenges (dismissal without stating reasons), the defense asked the court to shut off further questioning of veniremen and allow the trial to proceed with the eleven jurors already selected. "If there is to be any semblance of a fair trial," argued Garry, "we should go to trial with the jury we now have." Judge Mulvey rejected the motion and the U.S. Supreme Court let the denial stand...
...movies. Pinkies can be shown legally to adult audiences, but this one had appeared without warning on TV screens in nearby homes when the hotel's closed-circuit video system accidentally converted a rooftop steel railing into a transmitting antenna. Police quickly zeroed in on the hotel and shut down the video system-but not before the incident became a cause celebre that pointed up the phenomenal rise in the use of pornographic video tape across Japan...
...condition of the student movement right now is a complex one. Last spring's Cambodia strike saw the largest, most mass-based, most militant student movement in recent U.S. history. Dozens of ROTO buildings burned hundreds of campuses were shut tight. And yet, despite some limited successes, the Cambodia strike was basically a failure: look at a news paper these days. A mood of cynicism grew out of that strike, which had two sides; on the one hand, there is a lot more radical sentiment on campus. Many more people think that the system stinks. But, on the other hand...
Since then, the Naxalites have moved into urban areas, establishing a large following among university students disenchanted with slim opportunities for employment. A guerrilla-type action group, they first moved to shut down schools and frequently attacked police. They denounced the current election as "treachery," put up no nominees of their own, and vowed to halt the balloting by knocking off candidates of other parties. So far, three have been killed, and the voting in their constituencies has been postponed...