Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already been won by the Cleveland Browns, but the Forty Niners were still in the race in the west. The city was full of loyal fans, desperate to see the game. The trouble was that Kezar Stadium can only accommodate 60,000 of them, and those who got shut out could not go home to watch the festivities on TV. Unlike big-league baseball, pro football does not give away what it has to sell, blacks out the local area when a home game is being played...
Fears of an economic collapse were spurred when three major Dutch banks in Jakarta kept their doors shut for half a day. At The Hague, the Netherlands government announced preparatory measures to block Indonesian accounts...
...from one of the countless branches of the middle cerebral artery. The particular branch supplying Broca's area is not much thicker than the lead in a pencil, and if in Ike's case this was already narrowed by arteriosclerosis, a tiny clot would be enough to shut down the flow. That a bigger artery branch was not involved was shown by Ike's keeping full command of functions controlled by adjacent brain areas...
...London, hoping to stretch out payments on their Viscount fleet. In addition. Capital is economizing everywhere, may trim its 8,000-man payroll by 10%. Yet its main hope rests with CAB. Barring subsidy, it wants a healthy fare increase. Without it, Capital may eventually be forced to shut down or merge, possibly with Northwest Airlines...
...When I, as a Harvard undergraduate, lived in a room somewhere--there was a proctor who made you shut up if there was too much noise, don't you know, and who would boot you out if you had a girl in your room. But all Harvard cared about was that a student attended classes and got good grades. The only friends I made were those whose names began with M. and had classes in Sever Hall...