Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great block on the road to peace in China, said he, was the "complete, almost overwhelming suspicion with which the Chinese Communist party and the Kuomintang regard each other." Against it, all U.S. attempts at mediation had been stopped cold...
...suite of 16 ministers and notables, had traveled some 900 miles (via Turkish presidential yacht and train) to discuss the dream of an all-Moslem Orient. This would include Turkey, from which the Arabs broke away during World War I. One possible purpose: to serve as a road block to Soviet expansion in the Middle East...
...beyond recall. In the artists' bullpen on Madison Avenue, where Alfred Gerald Caplin (now Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner) was also fenced in, Caniff launched a "kid strip" called Dickie Dare. A.P. artists got $60 to $85 a week and the greenest hand had to block out "the damn crossword puzzles." "They wouldn't even tell us how many papers were using our stuff," Caniff complains. "They were afraid we'd get big ideas...
...next made a family deal with famed British moviemaker J. Arthur Rank, owner of a big block of stock in U-I, which handles U.S. distribution of his standard films. The deal: Rank, who makes many 16-and 8-mm. films too, would distribute United World pictures in the British Empire, and United World would distribute Rank's in North and South America. Together, Rank and United World would sell little movies in continental Europe and the rest of the world...
Reappearance next month of the same block-long lines and empty shelves that plagued book-hunting students last September is regarded as improbable by three local book vendors despite the shortage of many volumes and, in the case of two of the stores, current failure of approximately 25 percent of the University professors to submit book lists...