Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is more, students do not form an elite group, shut off from the people who work, as they do in the U.S. As long as there is manual labor in agriculture, it will be shared by students, technicians, planners, everyone. Lazara has worked in ten harvests, Hugo in eight. Pedro in five. Alberto thinks the volunteer work he did plating eucalyptus trees was even harder than cane-cutting. "It wasn't planting the trees that was so hard-it was digging the holes...
...quarterbacked the then Chicago Cardinals to their last National Football League championship. Beginning in 1958, he brought terse, knowledgeable sports analysis to all three major networks (most recently CBS). His formula for success: "Never insult the intelligence of your viewer. If you have nothing to say, shut...
...Phil Esposito. For weeks now, the hard-driving forward of the Boston Bruins has been threatening to overtake Teammate Bobby Orr as the National Hockey League's leading scorer. He might already have succeeded were it not for a pesky new goaltender with the Chicago Black Hawks who shut him out in all but one of their first five confrontations this season. To make matters worse, whenever the young upstart catches a Bruin game on TV, he calls Phil and gives him a few pointers. Phil would be outraged-if the Hawks' new netman were...
...That's an insult!" a listener shouted. "Shut up!" retorted the speaker, none other than the Deputy Leader of Britain's Labor Party. George Brown was at it again. Fresh from his remarkable performance last month on an unofficial visit to the Middle East, where he insulted both Israelis and Arabs with cheerful impartiality (TIME, Feb. 2). the outspoken ex-Foreign Secretary refused to be intimidated by his audience. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, he declared, is "a tough politician-I love her very much. But I'm fond of Nasser, too. If you want peace...
...ghetto certainly is more beautiful and larger and more diverse than most ghettos, and is certainly freer than the rest of America. That's why we're here. But it isn't ours. Capitalists make money off us, cops patrol us government tolerates us as long as we shut up, and daily we work and pay taxes for those who oppress...