Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most of our clients thought we had plenty of time," Suzette resumed. "Idiots. With a queue halfway round the block...
...Mexico City, it was announced that the storm had broken the oil pipeline from Tampico in four places. That meant further gasoline restriction. As people queued up to use Mexico City's crippled bus service (there were already block-long queues for kerosene, charcoal, corn), nervous politicos held their breath, wondered if the storm had dealt the country's groggy economic system a knockout punch...
Costa Rica's President Teodoro Picado sent a party of soldiers and police in pursuit, in a beach wagon. Shortly after midnight they were stopped beyond the village of Naranjo by a road block. They got out and reconnoitered. The revolutionists opened fire. Score: one pursuer killed, three wounded...
...cases so far this year compared with a prewar annual average of five, Health Officer Dr. George Ames Denison said that the typhus-infested rats which spread the disease are flourishing on wartime neglect in food shops, restaurants and garbage. Most Birmingham cases are workers in a five-block food and grain market section. Part of the trouble is the shortage of garbage cans and lids. Dr. Denison is especially worried by the fact that the rats are daily carrying germs in & out of town on trucks and railroad cars...
Scientific is the word for the Harlow blocking system. Using mousetraps and angle, or position; blocks as his weapons, the Harvard lineman can get the most efficient block from the least power. Coach Harlow used to advise everyone to watch the key block on every play, saying that it alone determined the manoeuver's success, not the more spectacular running or passing...