Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...persists in calling Victory Day-actually the anniversary of the withdrawal of the unbeaten British and French troops from Suez two years ago-has become an Egyptian holiday. Last week it was observed with massed schoolboy gymnastics and by the symbolic refloating of one of the ships sunk to block the canal. It was also marked by a speech from a somewhat subdued Nasser, who for the first time attacked the Communists. His oratory hardly matched the invective he has expended on the West, but it was a start...
When the French Communist Party lost 140 seats fortnight ago in the French National Assembly, reducing its strength to ten, it lost more than its old power to block legislation and raise general hell. It also lost close to $1,000,000 a year in party revenues...
...Civil War and World War II. Pius XII gave him one of the church's most delicate and difficult assignments by appointing him in 1954 archbishop coadjutor to the late Pedro Cardinal Segura, the terrible-tempered, reactionary Archbishop of Seville. Cardinal Segura refused to see him, tried to block Monreal's every effort to liberalize Segura's restrictions (such as forbidding Catholics to attend "public spectacles...
...voting rights had been violated. But the commissioners found themselves unable to stay together at a Montgomery hotel because one of them, former Assistant Labor Secretary J. Ernest Wilkins, is a Negro. Having found quarters at Maxwell Air Force Base, the group promptly encountered another welcome-mat-turned-stumbling-block. When they tried to subpoena county voting records, they discovered that Circuit Judge George Wallace (who was soundly whipped for Governor this year by equally segregationist-minded Attorney General John Patterson) had impounded the records, was threatening to jail any commission investigator who came nosing around...
AIRCRAFT EXCHANGE, INC. will be set up as a clearinghouse to match buyers and sellers of the 4,000 piston planes that are expected to go on the block in next five years. The founder, former American Airlines Executive Robert Helliesen, hopes exchange will also be able to put potential buyers in touch with lending agencies for necessary financing...