Word: switched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gets $5.35 an hour to stay awake, patrol his assigned area, report any violence, switch off the lights in the morning and make sure that all the doors on his patrol route are secure...
O105 to O140: Gelber walks through a maze of halls, basements, store-rooms, deserted common rooms and laundry rooms around the Quad, checking for vandalism, flicking off some lights. The kinds of stories student security guards mostly tell, Linus says, are about "things such as the most annoying light switch," indicating a switch high up the wall in the basement of Briggs Hall...
...help with an after-school science class and while half of the class is looking at things under the microscope with the teacher, I'll take the other half outside to find things to look at. And then they'll switch," Heher says...
...despite the switch, Burnes' boat was capsized by a drastic windshift during the first leg, automatically booting Harvard to dead last (16th place) in that race--and dropping the team five points behind B.U. in the overall standings...
...engineers assessed the damage. Authorities said that repairs could take between three and four weeks. Owners lose between $5,000 and $20,000 a day operating idle, loaded vessels, and some of them began furloughing crews and tying up their ships. Meanwhile, port directors feared that seaway customers might switch to East Coast and Gulf ports in the future. Said Duluth, Minn., Port Director Davis Halberg: "With bad problems two years in a row, it looks like we're going to have to resell the seaway to shippers all over again. That may not be easy...