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Word: shuts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same offense that carried the varsity nine to Tuesday's 20-8 win over Brandeis was yesterday good for only two hits and three walks, as underdog M.I.T. shut out the Crimson...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: M.I.T. Baseball Team Defeats Varsity Squad With Two-Hit Shutout | 4/18/1958 | See Source »

...During my first years in the Party I carried furniture back into the homes of people who had been evicted. I devised tools to turn the gas and water on after they had been shut off because people couldn't pay their bills...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Through the Looking Glass | 4/15/1958 | See Source »

...trouble broke out in the engine room. A disconnected fuel line spurted a torrent of oil ?. onto red-hot exhaust pipes. Within seconds, the engine room was a coiling mass of flames. The engine-room crew were driven out before they could even shut off the spurting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE INDIAN OCEAN: Men & the Sea | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...younger Basilio who first showed signs of wear. His strength was ebbing; in close, Robby tied him up with ease. When Basilio stood off and tried to box, stinging jabs thrust him off balance. Then a vicious uppercut landed flush on his left eye. Within seconds it swelled shut. Basilio was lost behind that ugly, blue-black eight ball for the rest of the fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Man Who Comes Back | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...winning back his title with brutal skill for the fourth time in six years (never from the same man), one of his handlers was in Basilio's corner screaming that Carmen's seconds were smearing their boy with doped Vaseline. It took a couple of cops to shut him up. Then an Athletic Commission inspector closed in on Robby and took a suspicious swig from the Thermos bottle that contained the challenger's between-rounds refreshment. (It was only orange juice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Man Who Comes Back | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

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