Word: shut
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...Ahmadinejad's biggest problem down the road may be the desire of Iran's political establishment to prove his 2005 election a fluke. Ahmadinejad's moves to shut them out of power - even kicking Khatami out of a courtesy office within the presidential compound - have made conservatives and reformists alike determined to get their revenge. One senior conservative leader, who did not want to be identified, even predicted in a TIME interview that the Iranian parliament would oust Ahmadinejad before the end of his term in 2009. "Most of the decision makers and the elite are against him," he said...
Someone had tried to wire $400 from my MasterCard to an account in Bosnia. The transaction raised red flags at Western Union, which refused the transfer. Still, I was advised to shut down my credit card immediately. I called my bank, which had already taken that step--though not before nearly $2,000 in fraudulent charges had been put through in the hours since I had gone...
...problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself. So it occurred to me that if I try to write about Abraham Lincoln I won't be able to shut up about myself. And so that's what...
...Native American who graduated from the original Indian College before it shut down was a Wampanoag tribe member...
...voice—no, two voices, one speaking in French, the other crying, really hysterical crying. All of this is in a fog, like the air is very heavy, like water. And there’s a thud at the end, like a door being shut. And most of all there’s the colour blue everywhere,” she describes...