Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have certain political opportunities which the world organization will be asked to block. We can stop any real action against us with our veto. True, the Assembly may be a troublesome forum for stirring up anti-Soviet sentiment. But this matter of 'free discussion' is still complicated, you know. After all, comrades, we shall have something to say about what subjects lie 'within the charter' and therefore are subject to discussion. And the Assembly offers certain opportunities to discuss social and economic matters upon which our viewpoint will be of interest to many millions...
...Soviet science is under the direction of the Soviet Academy. Within this organization are 76 research institutes, 11 independent laboratories, six observatories, 42 meteorological and astronomical stations, 73 libraries and 16 museums. The Soil Research Institute in Moscow alone is an eight-story building covering more than a city block...
...editor on a kid's eye report on UN CIO. His column has appeared in the Monitor under such headings as: "Boy Reporter Offers Proof China Will Be Strong Nation." Kenneth got off to a slow start. Racing back & forth between his classes and the Opera House a block away, he filed 500 words of stiff schoolboy prose to Boston every night. Soon Editor Canham offered a suggestion: let the grown-up reporters cover the news ; you tell us what you think of it. Kenneth thereupon got into the groove. One of his stories began: "This story starts...
...roomful of crackling wartime caricatures - tures-Axis in Agony - went on the auc tion block in Manhattan this week to boost bond sales. The drawings were the work of topnotch Commercial Artist Boris Artzybasheff, who did them originally as Wickwire Spencer Steel Co. advertise ments. Most of Caricaturist Artzybasheff's 32 imaginative, humorous, smoothly competent wash drawings show the Axis coming out second best against U.S. industrial might. In Artzybasheff's fancy: ¶A crisscross pattern of steel wire becomes a cage for three hoary, gaping primates with the faces of Mussolini, Hitler and Tojo...
Arabs and Frenchmen in the Levant were on edge. At a soccer game in Hama an Arab crowd began yelling "Pas de goal" ("Block that kick"). Sensitive Frenchmen thought they heard "A has De Gaulle" ("Down with De Gaulle"). That did it. Rioting spread from Hama to Horns and then to Damascus. The wild Djebel Druse country rose. Last week the trouble between Arabs and Frenchmen in the Levant (TIME, June 4) suddenly became the world's trouble...