Word: shutting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Imports Invited. In Newcastle, England, the Montague colliery, last operating coal mine in the city, announced that its veins are running out and it will soon have to shut down...
...communique signed by Lieut. General Ibrahim Abboud, chief of staff of the 10,000-man Sudanese army. He was taking over the 1,000,000 square miles of the Sudan, said Abboud, to end governmental corruption and chaos and to restore peace and order. Declaring martial law, Abboud shut down all newspapers, banned all political parties and public assemblies or demonstrations. Using almost the identical words of General Ne Win and General Ayub Khan when they seized power in Burma and Pakistan, General Abboud insisted: "I am not a politician. I have been busy with military matters and haven...
...Dartmouth and Brown will be greatly improved this winter," Weiland predicts. "And Yale, with their fancy new rink, will be hard to beat." All in all, the Ivy race will be tight, probably the tightest it has ever been--and the Crimson may be shut out of the leadership...
From London Diefenbaker flew to a whirlwind day in Paris, chiefly spent with Premier Charles de Gaulle, hopped on to Bonn and a brisk handshake from Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. To both he expressed concern that the six-nation European Common Market might shut out Canadian farm products; e.g., in 1957, 30% of Canada's exported wheat went to these six countries. He indicated Canada could not agree to De Gaulle's proposed French-British-U.S. NATO triumvirate. After Rome this week, Diefenbaker will head to Pakistan, part of the Commonwealth he hopes to galvanize...
...critic worth his salt would have just kept his mouth shut this season. For today, the next-to-last game for six teams and the last for two, there are still four colleges very much in the running for league honors, and the race conceivably could wind up in a three or four-way tie. At this very same point last year no one but Princeton and Dartmouth had a ghost of a chance of capturing the top position. Today the latter two, Cornell, and Penn all may finish at least tied for first...