Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fleet-footed Negro star is twenty yards outside the defensive end racing past the secondary. He cuts in toward the middle, runs head-on into three tacklers, stops dead in his tracks, and a moment later is in the clear running for the goal line. Not a single downfield block has been visible to the naked...
...patrol car of the Mounties blocked their way. The vets, 200 strong, jounced it aside, crashed through a high wooden barricade and bowled over patrol guards. They hurled aside a second car block, tangled with 30 Mounty reinforcements. The Mounties seized Hanratty, but let him go when the crowd closed in, and stood aside...
...born-to-the-manor air have not yet handicapped him in a business where stuffed shirts are liable to get taken to the cleaners. Last week he was getting along fine with North Side bookies, gracefully dropped $40 in a poker game with cops and reporters. Says balding Bill Block, Sun police reporter and Field's current mentor: "Everybody likes him and they all think he's a lot more democratic than they thought...
Last week about a thousand people had gathered before Abbey Lodge, a large modern block of flats requisitioned by the Air Ministry. Gradually a swelling chant of "Bedding for the squatters-bedding for the squatters-" rose, reached a frightening crescendo and fell again. From the squatters, whose morale still held, came the answering chant, "We'll stick it-we'll stick it." A poorly dressed woman wiped her eyes, smiled and said: "Ah, bless 'em, poor devils, I reckon they deserve medals for this." On the outskirts of the crowd a middleaged, middle-class man stood watching...
...once a Hearst newspaper was in trouble and no other publisher was pleased. This was no ordinary strike. As Newspaper Guild (C.I.O.) pickets circled the Los Angeles Herald & Express' baroque, block-sized plant for the second week, it shaped up as a test case for the press of the nation...