Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Suddenly they were letting us talk pretty loud. Several minutes passed before we realized there were no gunmen in the room. And then the police arrived-flakjackets, helmets, guns. Someone asked, 'Are you really the cops?' And they turned their guns on us and told us to shut up. I think they thought there might still be gunmen in the room. When they eased up, we all started kissing and hugging and a few people formed a circle to recite a Jewish prayer-it's a traditional prayer thanking God for preserving...
...International Airport. Instead, the Port Authority's eleven commissioners deferred decision for the third time in a year. The postponement followed intense, eleventh-hour lobbying by the governments of France and Britain and threats from unions in those countries of retaliation against U.S. airlines if the Concorde is shut out (see TIME ESSAY...
...number of doomsday arguments have been raised against the Concorde, as well as against the ill-fated Boeing SST that was scrapped in 1971. There were prophecies that supersonic aircraft would emit such great quantities of water vapor that a permanent cloud barrier would shut out the sun; this "greenhouse" effect would dangerously raise the earth's surface temperature. There were also predictions of skin cancer epidemics: nitrogen oxides released by the SSTs would destroy the ozone layer that partly shields the earth against the sun's lethal ultraviolet radiation. Then too, the SST's fumes were...
...woman looking for more than another one night stand, she tells him that she's "really going out on a limb with you." Isn't that a little condescending? Todd asks. "It's a lot condescending. I am a lot condescending. But I promise to keep my mouth shut in bed." Lynette says. "I wouldn't want that," Todd answers "Well," she retorts, "at least I won't talk...
...that, independent gas producers, who fear competition from imports, loudly argue that buying from foreigners would only make the U.S. more dependent for its energy needs on unreliable sources. Asks Dallas Gasman D.K. Davis: "Do you want Chicago to become dependent on Algerian gas so that they can shut the pipe some...