Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...informal teams, one famous tradition of Crimson elevens for the past decade has managed to survive the vagaries of time and conditions the Harlow system of football, an intricate schedule of offensive and defensive plays and signals which is designed to get the most out of every run or block, to use every man on the field in his most efficient capacity, and to confuse the opponent as much as possible...
...Bidault's words had a more current historical meaning. They meant that France was again aspiring to her traditional role as a road block to invasions from the east of Europe's Atlantic seaboard. Her Army was embryonic, her Navy was all but destroyed, but armies and navies can be rebuilt. Above all, France was still the world's No. 2 land empire. The power that supported her claims might gain a potentially valuable ally...
Since then Dean Hanford has kept it for Harvard, and he likes to think of the homely oak block as the symbol of good-will between the two Cambridges and the two great western democracies. When Hele presented it, he also turned over other relics. The wood is kept as a reminder that after the war, the famous Lionel DeJersey Harvard Studentship to Emmanuel will be re-established...
Five Chicago chemists disturbed the case with cries of "Hoax!" But the next night 17 families on one block reported that they had been gassed. Victims continued to say the mysterious substance made them vomit and sometimes affected the use of arms & legs...
...come in and tell me that they are going to divorce their wives. I have little success trying to get them to patch it up. After a man has flown 70 or 90 missions over Europe, laying his life on the block to protect his home, and then finds his home has been wrecked by infidelity, there is little I can tell him to convince him he should forgive and forget...