Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seat formerly held by her husband James. After he died in June, she was appointed his successor by Wallace. She had a sympathy vote, but she also had a salty tongue that she stilled for the campaign. "The hardest thing to do is to keep your mouth shut," she admitted. She refused to debate her opponent, State Senator Donald Stewart, 38, a scrappy anti-Wallaceite who called her a "nice lady without any political experience." He scored an upset victory with 57% of the vote...
...hoped they would see that I was a good worker and give me a job," said Opat. Despite his purely volunteer status, the plant's personnel department paid him $218 for his work and, according to Opat, promised him a job if he would keep his mouth shut. After two weeks without further word from the plant, Opat began talking to the press. "No comment," said a Ford spokesman to all inquiries. And so far, no job for Opat either...
...first "involuntary conclave," in 1241, consisted of ten Cardinals who were shut up in a dilapidated palace by a powerful Roman senator to keep them from being influenced by Emperor Frederick II, then besieging the city. Three of the Cardinals died of brutal treatment; the remaining seven elected a Pope who died within 16 days, after excommunicating the bad senator...
EPEA's latest project was a feasibility study on the re-opening, under community and worker control, of the shut-down Youngstown, Ohio, steel mill. Alperovitz's analysis of the much-ballyhoed "steel crisis" last year shows that corporate greed was the core of the problem, the catalyst for throwing Youngstown out of work. Youngstown Sheet and Tube, locally-owned and highly-profitable in the '60s, was 1969's Ripe Takeover of the Year. Lykes Steamship Company, based in New Orleans and one-seventh the size of Youngstown, borrowed the buy-out capital from Wall Street and elsewhere, using Youngstown...
Rookie right-handers Jim Beattie and Ken Clay combined to totally shut down the vaunted Royals' hitting attack, allowing just two hits. Beattie (6-9), who graduated from Dartmouth just two years ago, did not allow a hit until Al Cowens led off the Kansas City fifth with a loop single to center...