Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sophomore Dave Fish blanked Stu McFarland, and sophomore Paul Brown ripped Clay Stiles at nine. All this in three straight matches gave Harvard an in surmountable advantage. And even after senior Fritz Hobbs, who played despite being ill was defeated at number two. Harvard's Jaime Gonzalez shut out Mike Wilson at number seven, and the Crimson was ahead...
...proper intervals for all of us overweight citizens to jump. Then would come debates over whether it would work, whether it would be worth the money, and whether anybody cares. Meanwhile, some Russian-launched earthquake would come along and destroy us all. If you had kept your mouth shut, we could have lived out our lives in blissful ignorance...
...Sunday after Christmas, as the strains of the Recessional faded away, a member of the Lords rose and tried to address the congregation. He was ignored. Then, as the congregation filed out, 150 Lords and supporters took over the building and nailed shut its doors with timbers and railroad spikes...
Where Navy has shut out, Harvard has demolished, and only the most optimistic midshipman would be hoping for an upset this afternoon...
...trial's timing. It started just before Lundy Day, named for the Londonderry governor who in 1689 ordered the city's gates opened to the Catholic army of James II. Lundy's command was defied by a group of apprentice boys who slammed the gates shut. In past years, members of the politically powerful Orange Order have burned 60-foot effigies of Lundy from the highest column in town, illuminating the Catholic slum of Bogside and exacerbating Catholic tempers. This year Lundy stood only four feet high and was burned in a Protestant residential area, unseen...