Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Area, pounced on Diefenbaker's suggestion as opening up a practical alternative, even though Diefenbaker gave no real inkling on how the Canadians proposed to implement the shift. Last week Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft suavely handed John Diefenbaker notice to put up or shut up. Britain, said he at a meeting of Commonwealth Finance Ministers at Mont Tremblant, Que., considered that "the most adventurous way" to increase British-Canadian trade would be to wipe out all tariffs...
...shut off the mouth from the nasal cavity and make speech and eating possible, Freud had to wear a "huge prosthesis, a sort of magnified denture or obturator.'' This instrument, says Jones, was a horror that Freud and family nicknamed "the monster." It was painful and difficult to get in or out. In one nightmare scene, neither Freud nor the hovering Anna nor a physician could get it into his mouth, and the surgeon who devised the monster had to be called. When it fitted tightly enough to fulfill its purpose, it caused recurring sores. When...
...little organic development. The play never really advances from a kind of one-man show to any kind of social drama. To be sure, a negativist, no-exit attitude that shies away from moral crisis cannot develop very far; while at the same time so much overt anger must shut the door on irony. Having shown how angry Jimmy can be, the play chiefly thereafter shows how personally irresistible he is. Perhaps a little concentration on human plight would have helped: it cuts deeper than Bohemian mess...
...product service is a separate division at Westinghouse, with responsibility for every appliance from hand irons to refrigerators. It not only oversees repairs, but also tries to keep breakdowns from happening. Service-division experts sit in on all design meetings, have total control over production-line quality, can even shut down an entire line if the appliance starts giving customers trouble...
Warren Spahn's illness probably will force Manager Fred Haney to call on Lew Burdette, already a two-time winner, to pitch for the Braves. The fidgety right-hander who shut out the Yankees 1-0 Monday at Milwaukee will be working with only two days rest...