Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the pale of secret marriages is a more densely populated illicit area. In a single Dahlem block of 52 swank apartments occupied by U.S. officers, two-thirds of the tenants had German mistresses whom they supplied with coffee, cake and sandwiches from the Army mess-besides food received in packages from U.S. womenfolk...
...coaches scout for themselves, but more trust the job to assistants or to game-wise alumni. The job: 1) to record each play and shot, elaborately charted with identifying letters (H for hook shots, S for set, P for push); 2) to uncover players' idiosyncrasies and ways to block hot basket-makers; 3) to cook up tricky defenses. Few ambitious coaches can afford not to scout...
...Gestapo, High Command and General Staff were criminal organizations, and to draw the line so as to include a third of those who were willing members. Assistant U.S. Prosecutor Robert G. Story called for the conviction of some 600,000 officers of the Leadership Corps, ranging from Reichsleiter to block leaders...
...were not convinced that the prosecution was proving its case against even the intermediate echelons. Bald, stocky Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, presiding judge, cut in with some sharp questions. Storey read a letter from Reichsleiter Martin Bormann to Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg. Lawrence asked what the correspondence had to do with block leaders. Again, when Storey read an anti-Jewish police order from Himmler's Gestapo headquarters to district police chiefs, Lawrence interrupted: the letter's topic seemed to him a police, not a party matter. U.S. Judge Francis Biddle had similar doubts at another point: did the prosecution contend...
...Nobody Knows . . ." The Friend observatory is as practical as any backyard astronomer could wish. The supporting base is a perpendicular concrete column, 16 feet long, anchored in bedrock eight feet below the surface on the highest hill of the orange grove. To this block is bolted the large telescope - a 16-in. reflector in a 12-ft. galvanized iron tube. On the lower side are ascension and declination meters and counterbalance weights. The observatory is roofless. A square wooden platform provides working space. The lenses were ground in a small Escondido garage-workshop...