Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Things have been heating up in Walpole's maximum end since the beginning of the summer The rate of stabbings--a fair condition of tension in the joint--rose. Four Block started heating up quite literally in August when the prison administration welded shut the vents on the third tier, after they caught an inmate smuggling objects through the tiny slits...
Life in Crystal City has not been severely disrupted. The mostly Mexican-American population continues to work in the fields and the cannery; no businesses have shut down. Many people are taking cold showers or heating water in pans. They are cooking with firewood and butane and on hot plates, though some complain that tortillas do not taste as good cooked on electric skillets as they do on iron ones heated by gas. Civic organizations are sponoring free cookouts for people who cannot fend for themselves. But when cold weather arrives, Crystal City will be in more serious trouble, because...
...electrical power generators to higher-cost fuel oil and reducing street lighting. For the past five years, an average of 156 people a day have telephoned or visited the city utility offices asking for some kind of relief or further credit or, at least, that their gas not be shut...
...gentlest outcome one can wish for is that the public gets bored, thus proving that for all Billy's low judgment of the folks, he has overestimated their attention span. In the absence of such popular fickleness, the President and his brother should try to reach some understanding. "Shut up, Billy," might be a useful presidential message. - Lance Morrow
...week before, Dartmouth had shut out Yale, holding John Pagliaro to 62 yards on 41 carries. Earlier in the season, Harvard had averaged just one yard per carry over a two-game stretch. The starting Crimson backfield--Larry Brown, Chris Doherty, Jon Sigillito and Ralph Polillio--had a collective career total of 145 yards rushing before this season. And it was raining...