Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Small, high-quality microphones that will pick up conversations anywhere in a normal-sized room and carry them-either through undetectable, hairlike wires or radio transmission-to receivers or recorders that may be located in the next room or a car a block or two away...
Sovereignty is not a word often used in connection with a Soviet citizen. But First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev used it scornfully last week to describe the action of "Comrade Maximov," chairman of the Zhdanov Coke-Chemical works, who had built an 8½-ft.-high slag-block wall 3,000 ft. long (cost: $50,000) to "defend his sovereignty" against the rival Azvostal factory. Although Russia's vast socialized industry works for one boss-the State-competition between ministries, divisions and plant managements is as intense and as predatory as anything to be found in the worst Marxist...
...high point of a crashing primary victory in 1952, and then, to general surprise, he fell some 100,000 behind the Eisenhower ticket in the election. Nonetheless Joe returned to Washington, made it clear that he was no man to be trifled with. Failing in an attempt to block the confirmation of Harvard's President James B. Conant as U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. Joe swung again at Ike's Ambassador-designate to Russia, Charles E. Bohlen. He battled away against such respected party leaders as Bob Taft, demanded that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles be called...
...multi-million dollar development of the entire block bounded by Massachusetts Avenue and Mount Auburn, Dunster, and Holyoke Streets is on University planning tables, Edward J. Reynolds '15, Administrative Vice President, disclosed yesterday...
...University already owns all property in the block, which includes Holyoke House, Little Hall, Dudley Hall, the Hygiene Building, and several other University and commercial structures...