Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stumbling block which a recent Republican Legislature put in front of Democrats in the district of 40,000 people, Kelly explained, was to group Republican Wellesley with the towns of evenly divided Norwood, Westwood, and Dover in spite of the fact it was not adjacent to any of them...
...hand and carefully keeping pace with Mrs. Roosevelt, came through the garden entrance and took an enormous wreath of white gladioli from the leathery hands of an Army sergeant. Both the President and Mrs. Roosevelt raised their heads high as they turned and advanced to the white marble block where a small flag flapped over a cup of bright red tulips. The President bent slowly, and, with his left hand, placed the wreath on Franklin Roosevelt's grave...
...that's how Hootenannies began, according to Woodrow Wilson ("Woody") Guthrie. Last week one of the shoutin'est Hootenannies ever was held in Irving Plaza's faded second-floor dance hall a block from Manhattan's Union Square. On stage were 20 folk singers with guitars, mandolins and harmonicas. In the audience were 1,000 men, women & children (some also with guitars) who sang along with them. Smallest and loudest of them all was curly-haired Woody Guthrie. He sang...
Chief geographical feature, and chief hope of Palestine, is the extraordinary Jordan Valley, a deep "rift" which formed when a block of the earth's crust dropped several thousand feet. The lowest part, at the south, is filled by the Dead Sea, whose surface is 1,290 feet below the surface of the Mediterranean. The plentiful run-off from the Lebanon Mountains flows into the northern end of the rift near Lake Tiberias (the Biblical Sea of Galilee), then south through the Jordan River, and is finally lost in the Dead Sea's heavy brine...
...like a fat hot-water tank with an escape hatch. In addition to one cramped geologist sitting on a cushioned, red-leather seat, the chamber carries emergency oxygen, communication equipment and testing apparatus. The cylinder will withstand the pressure at a depth of 100 feet. A two-ton lead block attached to the bottom provides stability and a safety factor: the block can be released by turning a handle inside the cell to send the chamber bobbing to the surface...