Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fashion designers will not. Have they forgotten that we Thens still wear clothes and pay real money for them? The consensus in the world of designers seems to be that if you are over 25 (or, alas, over 50) you might as well assume a horizontal position and shut your mouth-you're dead...
Nixon also declined to shut the door on the possibility of a South Vietnamese invasion of the North-an idea that South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky has repeatedly mentioned. The President is aware that any full-fledged attack against North Viet Nam could draw China into the conflict, and he has taken extraordinary pains to reassure Peking that U.S. policy does not threaten its interests. But he also knows that three divisions of North Vietnamese regulars are massed just across the DMZ. To discourage Hanoi from sending them to attack the ARVN troops in Laos...
These are the memories, thought of course he'll never know it, knotted under Henry's palms. Still, you keep your eyes shut and continue your breathing for what seems like a long, long time, though it's not, and you try to undo the memories so they're no longer painful, though you know they will be again. And when you open your eyes, you catch Henry's glance for a second, a second of understanding, a subdued second, while you realize that Henry had memories too, and you wonder about them...
...bickering over patronage among the four center-left coalition partners-Socialists, Social Democrats, Christian Democrats and Republicans. Next, he kept parliamentary peace by allowing a free vote on Italy's controversial divorce bill. Colombo throttled filibusters by his own right-wingers; in return, Communist Leader Enrico Berlinguer shut off anti-Vatican outbursts from the far left...
...economists identified several pressures that they feel will prevent the nation from recovering its economic health as rapidly as the President and his advisers hope. All expect a fairly long steel strike. Alan Greenspan's forecast of a $1,047 billion G.N.P. assumes that a walkout will shut down the blast furnaces for eight weeks this summer...