Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted to challenge the supposition. Sweeping the floors in A, B and C cell blocks, he watched Guard Bert Burch walk the gun gallery behind steel bars. The unarmed floor guards were out of sight. Guard Burch, on routine patrol, passed on along the gallery into D block...
...swarmed up to the gallery. With an instrument made from stolen brass toilet parts, he spread the bars, squirmed inside and stood against the wall, waiting. Burch came back. Coy slugged him, took his rifle, .45 pistol, keys and let himself into D block...
...merely the question of where to put a new library. It is a question of this greater expansion of which Lamont may be only the beginning. The University must not allow the Yard to disintegrate into just another Cambridge block. To do this while disregarding outside and convenient sites is to misuse a treasured locale and insult generations of men who have lived there...
...Along. In San Diego, a discouraged broncobuster advertised for sale a "Western saddle, bridle, blanket and halter; rope, block and tackle, wheel chair...
...Fast." As the Exposition bore down on the Naperville bend, 68-year-old Engineer Bill Elaine saw a gleaming yellow block light...