Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brewster might then be forced to more drastic measures. As one student observer remarked, "Either we go back to class Monday or they shut the place down officially. There's no in between...
About 30,000 miles from earth, the astronauts began preparing for their final separation maneuver. Climbing into Odyssey, they switched on its oxygen tanks and batteries and sealed the hatch shut. Then the crew exploded the small bolts connecting the command module with the LM. Propelled by the release of air in the connecting tunnel, the Aquarius drifted rapidly away, its lifeboat function reliably and amply fulfilled. "LM jettison," reported Apollo 13. "O.K.," replied Mission Control. "Farewell, Aquarius, and we thank...
...quite as bad as all that, but Ludowici has nevertheless defied the efforts of three Governors, including Maddox, to shut down the speed traps. For years some of the local gas stations also conducted a profitable con game. When an unsuspecting motorist stopped to have his oil checked, the attendant would disable the car by tinkering with the generator or pouring water in the crankcase oil, then suggest that the customer move his crippled vehicle to a nearby garage for repair. Fittingly enough, the repair shop was called "Billy Swindel...
...back-country lawyer who has been running Long County since 1932. Always in a brown felt hat and soiled black suit, Dawson heads a political machine that has never lost an election at the county or city level, and he has not taken lightly Maddox's efforts to shut off his speed-trap revenue. Last year Dawson was tossed out of the Governor's office and called a rascal. To which Dawson replied, "You don't own this office. You are a political accident." Laughs Dawson: "It made Maddox madder than 40 hells...
...film Viva Max!, a political satire in which contemporary Mexicans recapture the Alamo, caused a stir when American Airlines chose to show it on an L.A.-Washington flight carrying Comedian and Superpatriot George Jessel. After vainly trying to persuade the crew to shut down the projector, Jessel promised to complain to the FAA and the airline president, then closed his eyes during the remainder of the movie...