Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...testimony: "I know it sounds funny to you, but the fact is that to us who escaped to Poland, that country today seems, by comparison, the most wonderfully free, democratic country you could dream of. This is how the MGB (formerly the NKVD) works in our cities: every block is controlled by an MGB boss with his office on the premises. Every house has an MGB informer. The informers control each other. One of them goes to the other and says: 'It's too bad about all this terror in Russia.' The other one says: Is that...
...delicatessens, and streets of all-alike houses, spring was beginning to stir. Robins and forsythia blossoms appeared in Prospect Park. From Red Hook to Canarsie the sound of baseball bats flung to the pavement and the scuffing of feet skedaddling after fly balls could be heard in nearly every block. At Ebbets Field, the infield shone emerald-green for next week's opening game. Everything was in order but the Dodgers-and because of them there was little joy in Brooklyn...
...situation over the past year has been unlike any that University authorities ever faced before. From more than 70 prewar courts, the total playing space has dropped until only the Business School courts and one block beside Dillon remain, and these badly in need of resurfacing...
Golf proved the only stumbling block to the group's efforts, as nearby links seemed loath to allow students to use their facilities. Final arrangements as well as complete schedules for all sports will be drawn up in a second meeting of the House secretaries on Friday...
...good Professor fails to comprehend that religion collectively has been one of the greatest psychic factors in the molding of human history, not the least evil of which has been Christianity. Religion is a man-made stumbling block...