Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Houses, the Charles and the crew it's the picture that draws the kids here and it's the picture the grads take away with them. And for some of these grads Houses become unimportant. Those are the guys who wouldn't walk a block to see a world series game, but will sail a couple of thousand miles to be along the finish line on the Thames at New London when the Harvard and Yale crews race that tortuous four miler in June...
...Fight Has Just Begun. Italy, invited to join the new Atlantic union, bucked through the week's most savage and stinging easterly squall. For 52 filibustering hours in a turbulent Chamber of Deputies, Palmiro Togliatti's Communists and Pietro Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists tried to block Premier Alcide de Gas-peri's request for permission to accept the Western invitation. "You buffoon! You infamous one!" screamed Togliatti at De Gasperi. Mass fist fights spotted the debate. Infuriated Communists brandished chairs, hurled desk drawers. One partisan jumped across four benches, tramped on the heads...
...opposition has already made some inroads on the Rankin bill here and there; yet the House failed two days ago in an attempt to block veterans of World War II from the benefits. The Senate may be able to slice further into Rankin's proposal or even smother it in a committee. But the chances that Mr. Rankin can pry something substantial out of Congress seem about as reasonable as the chances that he can be blocked. Even if he is only partially successful, there would be less money for housing, social security, and other items that are necessary...
...would appear that conservative Republicans have scrambled aboard a pretext in order to embarrass their opponents. Such hypocritical strawsnatching has set a queasy precedent for the future for the present Congress. If Tory Republicans earnestly determine to make the Eightieth Congress another "do-nothing" session, they can at least block important items of the Fair Deal, with the aid of fellow-conservatives from the South. And this would be in spite of the GOP party platform which agrees with the Fair Deal in such significant areas as civil rights. It looks as though the Old Guarders hate the Administration more...
With an undefeated record this season--like their elders--the Yale freshmen will be favored over Bill Brooks' Yardling swimmers when the two teams meet at 3:30 this afternoon in the Block-house pool...