Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most part the audience took their antics cheerfully. When police headed off some dissenters making for the speaker's stand, the crowd cheered, leading one protester to say: "My God, they would like to see my head cracked." Nonsense, retorted a bystander: "Just your mouth shut...
Full Jails. Because of the country's reeling disarray, most Ecuadorians greeted the dictatorship calmly. More than just a few regarded its tough stance with approval. Velasco shut the universities, dissolved Congress and promised a shake-up of the Supreme Court, which has sided with his opponents in the tax-collection disputes. Many Ecuadorians hoped that Velasco's attempts to tighten tax policies and end private speculation in foreign exchange might help loosen the oligarchy's stranglehold on the country's economic life. The military took advantage of the takeover to crack and shave student skulls...
...July hearing, will be to appoint one or more trustees to run the railroad. The trustees will have the power to float new loans to keep the line operating. While waiting for those loans, Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe warned last week, the railroad may have to shut down for lack of cash to meet expenses, which include the $20 million a week payroll for its 94,000 employees. Said Volpe: "I don't believe any of us can say with any degree of certainty if the payroll will...
...were afraid they would be willing to lose more if they could shut us out of the Summer School...
...Saturday, November 23, 1957, first-year coach John Yovicsin walked along his team's bench and asked if by chance anyone had played quarterback in high school. Harvard was being shut-out by Yale on regional television, and all three Crimson quarterbacks had left the game with injuries...