Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abdomen and one in his thigh... The hospital refused to treat him until the police arrived, and then, when they did treat him, allowed the ???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...
...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...
Pusey condemned students and faculty members who "would like to see our colleges and universities denigrated, maligned, and even shut down," who go about this by "sowing doubt and suspicious" and "using the old means of distortion, accusation, guilt imputed by association...
...After six weeks of investigation, NASA's high-level review board proposed an explanation for the explosion of Apollo 13's oxygen tank. The blast was apparently caused by the failure of two thumbnail-sized automatic switches that are designed to shut off the oxygen tank's internal heater if its temperature rises above 80° F. Tests showed that the temperature, if unchecked, could soar as high as 1,000° and cause the electrical insulating material to flake off. The arcing that results can ignite the insulation. Heat from the fire expands the compressed semiliquid...
...might be more sympathetic toward Zorza's simplified analysis of Harvard as a detached, anti-humanistic society if his own conception of those who have the right to say "we" were not so limited. In fact, Zorza envisions a reform movement that is every bit as shut off and ivory towerish as the University he disparages. At one point, he rejoices to find that...