Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thigh... The hospital refused to treat him until the police arrived, and then, when they did treat him, allowed the cops to shackle him to an operating table. Although he was shouting in pain for the doctors to case the shackles, the doctor treating him told him to shut up. He insists that at least one cop hit him in his wounded abdomen with a nightstick and that several beat him on the wrists and elsewhere until he passed out from the pain...
...from the outside but from within, from extremist splinter groups of the New Left made up of students and- I am sorry to acknowledge- also of some faculty who for reasons not quite clear to me would like to see our colleges and universities denigrated, maligned and even shut down...
...utterly false to present the conflict in America today as a contest between the children of light and the children of darkness. But within every state, within every community-and within many individuals-there is a conflict between impulses: merely to condemn or somehow to understand, merely to shut out change or somehow to move with...
...Nathan M. Pusey, however, the revolutionary is the bigger offender. In a moving baccalaureate address, which evoked his personal agony in coping with Harvard's turmoils, he blamed campus disruption on faculty and student extremists "who would like to see our colleges and universities denigrated, maligned and even shut down." In Pusey's angry view, such agitators-specifically, the S.D.S.-use techniques akin to those of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, for whom Pusey served as a favorite target. He cited the Hitlerian tactic of "the big lie"-in this case, the radicals' claim "that the university...
...most dramatic turn in the fighting occurred in the northern provincial capital of Siem Reap, only 21 miles from the fabled temple ruins at Angkor. At midweek, following reports of Communist movement in the area, the hastily fortified Siem Reap airport was shut down. Only twelve hours after the last planeload of tourists had lifted off, the Communists attacked the airport, the most modern in Cambodia, and then the city...