Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After this, a shut-eyed journey through a maze begins. In the maze, a man or a woman, alternately, leads the playgoer by the hand. They whisper and murmur, making sounds that seem like endearments. There are caresses, lips brush one's cheeks and one responds in kind. One's hands are perfumed with honeysuckle. A piece of apple may be popped into one's mouth...
...Ampex executives, whom he is trying to persuade to think "pop." He also has come to admire the music that the young favor, and that helps him in negotiating with some recording stars. "These kids on records are saying something," he explains. "If you are an adult, and you shut them off, then you are not hearing what's going...
...Student Union President Richard Lubin said that he thinks that the strike will virtually shut down the university's normal daily operation and will keep most of the school's 22,000 students home...
...medical area by Harvard's "tactics," and there are now about thirty low-income apartments that are vacant. Harvard has not rented these apartments, despite the fact that a critical housing shortage now exists in Boston. The windows in these apartments are boarded up, and their doors are padlocked shut. Occasionally, whole buildings are demolished, and empty lots and piles of rubble are left behind. The entire neighborhood bears a mark of extinction...
Although scientists complain that the Atomic Energy Commission, along with the Department of Defense and NASA, gets a disproportionate share of federal research funds, the AEC itself has had to shut down its molten-salt breeder reactor at Oak Ridge. The Bureau of the Budget simply did not release $3,000,000 authorized for it by Congress. This was especially dismaying to environmentalists, because the breeder reactor promises, eventually, to be the cleanest and most efficient fuel source for electric power...