Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot fool around with the idea of cooperation with the Reds." In India, where Nehru's equivocation blunted the impact of the revolt itself, there was almost unanimous condemnation of Moscow. Said one influential Indian in unwonted tribute to a man most Indians regard as a stumbling block to peace: "The Nagy execution obviously justifies the firm stand John Foster Dulles takes against Communism...
...prize block, which has just been cleaned of its incrustations, shows the debated Gallic harvester. It has two wheels and a comb of teeth, just as Pliny said, and a box to catch the heads of grain. In front, carrying a shovel-like implement, is a laborer. The only important deviation from the Pliny version is that the motive power appears to be a mule instead of oxen...
...mills employing 1,372 in Maine, Vermont. Massachusetts and New Hampshire) never became a major factor in the industry, but it gave him the funds to begin major investments in real estate in mid-Depression. One day he heard that Western Union wanted to build on a choice block near the financial district, so he bought a corner building as a toe hold, quietly worked out a deal with Western Union to pick up the rest of the property on percentage. His profit...
Fastest Gun. A new electronic game to determine the fastest-drawing young cowpoke in the block was put on sale by Kilgore, Inc., Westerville, Ohio. Titled Fastest Gun, the game provides a plastic steer skull and two six-shooters (attached to 8-ft. wires) with plastic holsters. The boy who draws faster and pulls the trigger makes one eye in the skull light up and ring a bell. Price...
...past. Standing within the basilica of St. Mark's, James spoke of its mosaic pavement as "dark, rich, cracked, uneven, spotted with porphyry and time-blackened malachite, polished by the knees of innumerable worshippers." Standing in the same spot, Twain observed: "Everything was worn out-every block of stone was smooth and almost shapeless with the polishing hands and shoulders of loungers who devoutly idled here in bygone centuries...