Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hallowed tradition, however, poses a stumbling block for further attempts at reducing cost or increasing efficiency. The Department is considering standardization of menus at all Houses, a move which would have two "beneficial" aspects. "Such a plan would aid us in purchasing food in bulk quantities. More important, it would eliminate the myth that one House has better food than another...
...there was a daily airlift of captured Africans: 249 were arrested and 136 deported, among them Nyasaland's only African lawyer and only African physician. Hour after hour the government press office, its walls anachronistically decorated with inviting travel posters, ground out fresh communiqués-a road block put up here, a prison stormed there, a European game warden and a forest ranger attacked elsewhere. Against the clubs, stones and pan gas of the Africans, the government had Bren guns, Sten guns, spotter planes-even Vampire jets-plus the services of the King's African Riflemen...
...carefully hoarded copies of TIME on the doorstep of the seven-story building whose top three floors the embassy occupies, stoned windows, produced a homemade facsimile of the U.S. flag (with four-pointed stars) to burn on the smoldering ashes. Surging up to the U.S. Information Service Library a block away, they smashed more windows...
...HEIRS will sell a block of 1,800,000 shares, 8% of the grocery chain's outstanding stock, and valued at about $81 million, in the third largest secondary offering in history (first: Ford, $657.9 million; second, Upjohn Co., $108.4 million...
...block the Soviets, said the report, "it is of the utmost importance that new and greater use be made of the resources and initiative of private enterprise." Its recommendations...