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Then, once in power, it all kind of clammed up, Anderson, and they kind of changed the definition of what open was going to mean.

CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2007 2007

GRIFFIN (on camera): They made that promise before they got in power; then once in power, it all kind of clammed up, Anderson, and they kind of changed the definition of what "open" was going to mean.

CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2007 2007

GRIFFIN (on camera): They made that promise before they got in power; then once in power, it all kind of clammed up, Anderson, and they kind of changed the definition of what "open" was going to mean.

CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2007 2007

Sensitive that I might be overstaying my welcome, I thanked him and he immediately kind of clammed up and readied himself to go.

stampede 2006

"She kind of clammed up last year," said Janie O'Neil, the girls 'mother, of Makayla.

greatfallstribune.com - SPORTS 2010

Hey B and B man, hope Rovers defence will be "clammed" shut on Saturday and we "shell" out some good stuff ....

unknown title 2009

But when Lazar started to get threatened by certain segments of our Government, he kind of clammed up and pulled himself out of the media spotlight.

Adam Gorightly's Untamed Dimensions 2009

In the third, they pick it up a little bit and it's almost like we just kind of clammed up just trying to hang. "

ESPN.com 2009

But when asked about the importer, he clammed up: "I cannot tell you."

'An Awful, Awful Thing' Anne Kadet 2011

When visitors came asking, the locals clammed up like bay mussels; New York Times reporter John Markoff traveled to the site in 2006 and was stonewalled by the city manager.

In the Plex Steven Levy 2011