Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which had scored the jury trial amendment a few days before, urged the Senate to pass the weak bill as the best possible. So did ardently pro-Ike New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond. So did the civil-righteous Washington Post and Times Herald: famed Post Cartoonist Herbert Block (Herblock), who is forever lampooning Eisenhower for indecisiveness, did an astonishing turnabout to sketch an impulsive Ike pointing a revolver at a fair Miss Civil Rights...
...nuclear navy is growing so fast, says the trade magazine Nucleonics, that its demand for reactors and other tricky equipment is threatening to block the development of peaceful nuclear power. The Navy's building program, which passed Congress last week, calls for 30 seagoing reactors and six landbound experimental prototypes. Navy officers and Navy contractors are busily learning atomic arts. They all know that nuclear power is sure to dominate the Navy in the near future...
President Carlos Castillo Armas and his wife were to dine alone one night last week in the block-long Presidential Palace in Guatemala City. Not even one of the wiry President's military aides was present as the couple strolled arm in arm down the long, wide hallway from their bedroom apartment to the dining room. Only the crack Presidential Guards stood duty in the series of archways that led to the courtyard gardens...
Reserves were called up, army troops swarmed the city, road blocks were erected and a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew declared. But Guatemala-for the time, at least -remained calm. At the National Palace, where the dead President lay in state, military-academy cadets stood guard while a three-block line of mourners filed past. President Eisenhower, who received Castillo Armas in the hospital in Denver and renewed the acquaintance while visiting Panama, called the death "a great loss to his own nation and to the entire free world. President Castillo Armas was a personal friend of mine...
Chips off the Block. Later the soldiers sold the King's blood to those who wished to dip their handkerchiefs in it, sold bits of his hair and chips of the block. The embalmer, sewing the King's head to his body, remarked: "I have sewn on the head of a goose." Charles had died trying to forgive his enemies, and almost surely even these last indignities, could he have foreseen them, would not have led him to approve the revenge taken by followers of Charles II years later. The body of Lord Protector Cromwell...