Word: shut
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hard to argue with that. From a Left Bank living room on a sumptuous Beaux Arts boulevard, you had to shut your eyes hard to picture the Ozarks. About 50 Democrats had squeezed into the Paris apartment for a fund-raising conference call organized by Democrats Abroad, joined by Democrats in Vienna, Strasbourg, London and Cambridge, England, in settings that no doubt were also jarringly different from St. Louis. In this audience, there was an obvious question - a "litmus test," as one Paris Democrat put it - for candidates: How would you have voted on last week's detainee bill, which...
...holding penalty and a sack forced Lehigh to punt, preventing any damage.NOT A THREATT WITH HIS FEETLehigh quarterback Sedale Threatt came into the game tied for the team lead in rushes, and the Mountain Hawks have always been known for a strong running game. But Threatt was effectively shut down for a large part of the game Saturday, gaining just 16 yards on five carries.“Our athleticism on the flank definitely helped corral him a little bit,” Murphy said, pointing to a quick defensive line. “What they did is they threw...
...think we are. Most of the world lives in dire poverty. They don't really know a lot about security to begin with. Since 9/11, the most important thing to Americans is to be secure. This chip implanted in us causes people to shut down, isolate and think of themselves: "I'm going to take care of me. I'll worry about my group and my identity." Any vision of the world is sacrificed for that. We've seen it with the war in Iraq. The fear button gets pushed and everyone is like, "Let's go after Saddam Hussein...
There was little political interest, at least among my friends and dorm-mates. Fidel Castro, then the new Cuban leader, spoke at Harvard, and there were anti-nuclear sing-ins at a local coffee shop, but when the fire marshals shut down the shop hours before one event, few noticed. Woolworth’s in the Square drew occasional picketing and sit-ins, but few of us realized that it was part of a great movement to desegregate public accommodations nationwide...
...Tour” in late May, they received an e-mail from Marshall C. Page of the Provost’s Office, stating that the tours violated Harvard trademark and student business rules and must “cease indefinitely.” In response, Jones and Schofield-Bodt shut down operations for two days, but were able to resume business after changing their name to “The Unofficial Hahvahd Tour” and pointing out that student business registration is only necessary during the academic year. Once the academic year began, however, The Hahvahd Tour...