Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered Secretary of Defense McElroy to make certain that the Pentagon's guided missile director "is clothed with all the authority that the secretary himself possesses in this field, so that no administrative or inter-service block can occur...
Everybody in a whole cell block Was dancing to the jailhouse rock . . . [Mumble, mumble] crash, boom, bang, The whole rhythm section was a purple gang...
...Girl Scout Age. This saloon McNulty celebrated and helped make famous -until it became blighted by literary admen: "Nobody goes there any more; it's too crowded." And, not far from Costello's, in the heartland of McNulty's world, half a block of stores has recently been razed to make room for the cleanly headquarters of the Girl Scouts of America, who will have no difficulty at all in identifying the trees. It is all very sad, but McNulty's work remains to lighten the loss. His art was as well-hidden and as obvious...
James D. Cronin, owner of Jim's Place, said last night that he "would like very much" to stay on the block, but that moving away from it and back again would cause "an economic problem." "We hope that they will build in a manner so that we could move to a completed section of the building," he said. As plans now stand, this does not seem to be possible...
Several faculty members also expressed strong hope that the plan could be effected, although they admitted that practical problems could prove a stumbling block...