Word: shutting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crimson jumped to a lead over the perenially strong C.C.N.Y. team by winning six out of nine foil bouts. Larry Johnson of the varsity shut out his opponent in foil, and Captain Bill Trebilcock won two out of three bouts. The visitors then gained back five of those wins, while losing four to the varsity in the sabres. Only Mike Woolf was able to win two out of three for the Crimson sabre team...
Living with a son and a cluster of bodyguards in the Jaragua Hotel, Batista and his crew present a picture of wariness. One day last week the trigger-cock sound of a purse snapping shut in the hotel lobby made a group of his fellow Cuban exiles swivel around. Batista himself refuses to stand before an open window, spends almost all his time in his suite, scuttles out of the center of a ring of bodyguards only to eat. Trujillo's mouthpiece newspaper, El Caribe, outrightly told Batista to "get out," but he has nowhere to go. France last...
...along with him in destroying massive resistance. Well, of course, I knew better, because your lead article had quoted Almond: "I will not yield to that which I know is wrong,' cried he." The other fellows wouldn't believe me until I showed them the story, but it really shut them...
Governor J. Lindsley Almond, who had pledged himself to fight to the end within the limits of the law, conceded last week that the battle was lost. The laws which had empowered him to shut down any school ordered to integrate by district courts were struck down by the Virginia Supreme Court as a violation of the state constitutional provision requiring Virginia to preserve an efficient system of free public schools. Simultaneously, a federal court ruled that the massive resistance statutes violated the "equal protection" clause of the Fourteenth Amendment...
Neighbors peered into the street through half-closed shutters, but the police quickly warned: "Shut those windows or we will shoot." A young doctor ignored the order and tried to administer first aid to a man felled by a police truncheon. A cop shot him through the chest...