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Word: shut (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head around so the cameras can see his ugly misshapen flesh that is called, merely out of convention, a face. He just sits there doing nothing while those horn players my god there about to burst their lungs look their faces are getting all red their eyes are squeezed shut with the pain (or is it the ecstasy) and the singer is trying to make the song get across, to grab you in your soul and everyone is jumping up and down like crazy but that goddamn little man is just looking at you with his sickly plastic smile...

Author: By Charles M. Hagen, | Title: The Man | 1/28/1970 | See Source »

...epidemic that struck the staff of London's old Royal Free Hospital in 1955 was explosive. Within two weeks, the number leaped from five victims to more than 100. The hospital had to be closed to new patients on July 25, and it stayed shut until October. More than 300 cases were recorded, two-thirds of them severe enough to require hospital treatment. Virtually all of the physical symptoms fitted the concept of an infectious disease: headache, sore throat, malaise, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea. Since the Royal Free's expert microbiologists could find no bacteria to blame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Mass Hysteria | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

...been unhappy about science for a long time, because of the institutions that I work with and the practical consequences of what I do. After all, you can be ghetto-ized in the lab or in the university. I felt shut out from other human beings," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Top Geneticist Becomes Full-Time Radical | 1/21/1970 | See Source »

...tell anyone to go away or shut up?" Margolin asked May later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Day in the Life of the Rights Committee | 1/14/1970 | See Source »

Last week the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced it would close the uncompleted research center in Kendall Square July 1 because of a shift of priorities in the space program. Nearly 850 NASA researchers and employees will be affected by any move to shut down the $30 million center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Governor Confers With President In Attempt to Save NASA Center | 1/14/1970 | See Source »

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