Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, Harvard is not the only college considering the question of supporting the Court's decision. Should the Ivy League colleges or, on an even wider basis, "northern schools," agree to shut out the applicants from the three high schools, there would be a significant road-block to good higher education ahead of southern students in closed high schools...
This lineup will be too much for most of the Crimson's opposition, but Yale will once again be the stumbling block to a championship team. So it will be a year like most others, with Yale providing the drama in this season's race...
...typical slam-bang effort to solve all his problems, 83-year-old President Rhee devised an omnibus security law that opponents, including the bar association, said was so loosely drawn that it could be used to silence all political protest. In a desperate effort to block the bill, 80 Assemblymen of the opposition Democratic Party barricaded themselves in the Assembly chamber for six days...
...would ulcerate an editor on the outside. Personnel turnover can be high or low, but it is never stable; for one issue the Utah State Prison's Pointer News had an "Editor at Large" on the masthead after its editor in chief resigned suddenly by escaping prison. Cell-block correspondents are notoriously jealous authors, who quit in pique at the slightest editing of their copy...
...degree, all prison publications are censored. Newsmen at Folsom are ruled by instructions to show "mercy and kindliness" in print, "beware of seekers of free publicity," and avoid prison idiom, e.g., "isolation area" instead of "the hole." But the Angolite at the Louisiana State Penitentiary has published a cell-block correspondent's story griping about the chow. And the Menard Time recently printed a convict's poem to prison guards which began: "The screw stomps in on big flat feet...