Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naval officer was modest, soft-spoken Captain Edward Ellsberg, salvager of the submarine S-51 off Block Island in 1926. Ellsberg had arrived in Massaua in March. Principal item of wreckage in the harbor which Allied officials were anxious to recover was a floating dock capable of handling 10,000-ton cruisers. The British said recovery was impossible. But 50-year-old Captain Ellsberg put on a diving suit and took a look. The dock, he discovered, had eight watertight compartments, into each of which the Italians had dropped a 200-lb. bomb. Undiscouraged, Ellsberg went to work with meager...
...Parke-Bernet Galleries, fabulously wealthy Belgian Baron Cassel van Doom stumped pompously to every important sale, solemnly focused a pair of high-powered binoculars on everything that reached the auction block. At Gimbels 84-year-old Spanish Millionaire José Lazaro Galdeano, his loud necktie half hidden by a grey spade beard, bought right & left, walked off with one of the season's most expensive buys ($26,742): François Boucher's L'Amour, reputedly posed by Mme. de Pompadour...
...capstone in the week's grim monument of destruction. The bombers' first target was Hamburg. On that factory of submarines and other war machines more than 600 bombers dumped their loads-first tens of thousands of fire bombs, then high explosives shatteringly climaxed by 4,000-lb. "block busters." Two nights later the bombers gave Hamburg more of the horrible same in the pit that was still burning from the first raid...
Over the first five-week block of exercises this summer, the classes have worked up from a minimum dosage toward a maximum, aiming to produce enough ability to pass these tests and tone up the entire muscular systems of the students. After the present layoff for examinations, the remaining part of the summer conditioning will pick up where the first block ended and continue to grow more grueling...
...still tempted to try the Ken, you'll find it hiding behind a White Tower Hamburger Stand, just beyond the Metropolitan Theatre in downtown Boston. To get to the Savoy, take an Egleston car at Park Street, get off at West Newton Street, and walk right one block...