Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wellesley's "D" shut off the passing lanes for the break and pressured the ball as the 'Cliffe guards brought it upcourt, forcing numerous turnovers. "Our passing killed us," said Coach Carol Kleinfelder. "They set traps and we went right into them," she added...
...last day in Plains, Carter rose at 6:30 a.m. and gazed upon the dusting of snow and ice on the pine trees-the first in his octogenarian Uncle Alton's memory. While Rosalynn scrambled eggs and cheese, Jimmy fried the breakfast ham. Shortly before noon, he shut off the water and electricity, turned down the thermostat, and left the house in the care of a maid and the Secret Service. At the train depot, the Carters waved goodbye to the 18-car Peanut Special...
...business leaders, local officials and countless citizens responded, some wholeheartedly, others grudgingly, life faltered and changed in many regions of the U.S. The Labor Department estimated that some 500,000 workers had been laid off in plants shut down by fuel shortages. Next summer's crops could be damaged by the effects of the deep-reaching cold on the soil, and the lack of moisture-bearing snow in the West...
...nationwide demand rose sharply over the past two weeks, the pipeline companies scrambled to line up additional supplies of gas and eventually had to tell many industrial customers to curtail their use of gas drastically or shut down altogether. With the Government energy bureaucracy unable even to keep adequate track of the shutdowns, much less manage the crisis, the natural-gas situation became the first practical problem confronting the new Carter Administration...
...there a moment when suddenly the door shut to the presidency...