Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great majority of citizens who surrounded the barricade blocking off Central High School this morning simply stood and watched. Many had difficulty even watching, for except for reporters and photographers, few were allowed within a block of the school...
Until 11:20 the school was quiet. Then an alarm, ostensibly for a fire drill, was rung. The student body filed out of the school, onto the sidewalk directly in front of the block-long cordon. Only one Negro girl was seen among the white students. She laughed and sang school songs during the recess that followed, along with the other children...
...committee certainly discovering its impotence in the fray, but we'll bet our bottom forceps that Hoffa joins the capon ranks in no time. New Capon Hoffa, certainly economically "fattened for the table" (Webster), will join the docile when the committee leaves the roost for the chopping block...
...Connecticut General plant, with its module of six feet carried throughout, its sweeping 470-ft. glass façade, cantilevered restaurant, airy, uncolumned work space, four tranquil yet exciting interior courts by Japanese Sculptor Isamu Noguchi, and separate executive block, is Bunshaft's bold merger of his principles with the company's needs...
...South realized early in the civil rights battle that it had no chance whatever to block passage. The entire strategy was to get a bill weak to the point of being meaningless-and it failed even in that. The final vote spelled an end to the era in which Southern domination was the governing fact of the U.S. Senate...