Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might well calculate the damage a Palestine debacle would do to the United Nations. A speedy, well-policed partition would enhance its prestige immeasurably, while a week policy will turn the U.N. into little more than a watery organization for completely sovereign nations. The United Nations is on the block today, but the statesmen still refuse to enforce partition. They pray for a last minute reconciliation between Jews and Arabs. Reconciliation is hopeless...
...same day, in Cairo, the Arab League announced that, if U.N. sends a security force to Palestine, member states planned to contribute regular army units to an "Arab Liberation Army." The League had earlier resolved to block the building of oil pipelines and threatened to "reconsider" oil concessions...
With a 9 to 0 shutout in the saber event, Rene Peroy's varsity fencers slashed their way to a decisive 18 1/2 to 8 1/2 victory over the Princeton swordsmen Saturday afternoon in the Block-house...
Three hundred fifty fans, most of them standees, saw the more exciting Block-house proceedings. At 121, Coombs took a default but lost to his overweight opponent by a 7 to 2 count in a subsequent exhibition bout. Brown won a default in the 128-pound class and a pin in the next weight. Then Ray took a 4 to 0 decision at 145, but Conant was pinned...
...think it is the most important work Stravinsky ever wrote," Professor Fine went on, The opera, which was originally a ballet, calls for a mixed chorus of 60 voices with outside soloists plus four pianos and a percussion section which includes a tympani, bass drum, xylophone, chimes, gong, wood block cymbals, bell, side and snare drums and tamburines...