Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impressive 81% of the popular vote. In defeat, the Socialists actually increased their share of the popular vote from 28.8% in 1953 to 31.75%. Under Germany's proportional-representation system, this gives the Socialists just over one-third of the Bundestag's 497 seats, or enough to block any constitutional changes. Of all the other parties, only Reinhold Maier's right-of-center Free Democrats, who won 41 seats, got more than the minimum 5% necessary to be represented in the Bundestag. Thus the prospect is that West Germany is well on the way to a reasonably...
...virtues (TIME, Oct. 29). Like few other papers that impose a similar taboo, the liberal evening Blade (circ. 194,501) this month had to fight for its 13-year-old policy against a community brought to the brink of explosion by reports of a crime wave among Negroes. Paul Block's worldly, well-edited Blade not only stood by its rule but also last week gave Toledoans of equal good will a lesson that few will soon forget...
Publisher Block did not crow to his readers. A research chemist who earned degrees from Yale, Harvard and Columbia before taking over following the death of Paul Block Sr. in 1941, dark-haired, retiring Paul Block, 46, dispassionately analyzed Toledo's "evil hoax" both in the evening Blade and its sister paper, the stodgy morning Times (41,841), which had also avoided the racial tag but stirred few complaints. (The Block-owned Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which is published by younger brother William, has the same racial policy...
...eighth House will occupy the city block bounded by DeWolfe, Mill, Plympton, and Mt. Auburn streets
...feel, Brzezinski says, that a complete break would lead to one of two possibilities. One, the Russians would fight to regain complete power, as they did in Hungary, with the West offering no aid. Or two, if the break were successful, and Poland became a member of the Western block, it would then have no support against the danger of Germany swallowing it up again...