Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, the idea of double-damning Japan by limiting exports to the U.S. and preventing trade with "any of the great area" (i.e., Red China) close by across the China Sea seemed foolish. "You just block them, and they have no place to go except in the arms of somebody where we don't want them to go." Ike's reasoning invited a second question: Was the U.S. preparing to bring China trade controls in line with less stringent controls on trade with the Soviet sphere of Europe? Always unwilling to announce policy shifts...
Some pundits immediately pounced on these two assertions in a manner that prompted the Christian Science Monitor to observe that "many of the news reports and comments on the book kidnaped fragments from the text and lugged them off to some private chopping block where they were enthusiastically minced." At the Secretary of State's news conference, reporters promptly threw the book at Dulles...
...licensed the Idaho Power Co.'s low-dam plan on grounds that Congress was reluctant to pay for the high dam. Idaho Power promptly went to work on Brownlee Dam, first of its three low dams, even though public power groups went to court to block it. Gambling on winning its case, the company has since spent $19.5 million toward completing Brownlee...
...Imitation of Life), who once asked Lloyd's of London for $100,000 insurance against having a picture taken of him grinning ("I didn't get this wooden face by accident. It's been my trademark, and it's paid me well"); of an intestinal block; in Victorville, Calif...
Three inches of mud kept the varsity baseball team from putting its Greater Boston League championship on the block yesterday afternoon, but M.I.T. is expected on Soldiers Field again this afternoon. Again...