Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twelfth Congress made a specific, though moderate, stand on the testing issue by expressing 'its confidence in the resolution of the ISC concerning 'a definite agreement on the suspension of nuclear weapons tests.'" USNSA (at the 8th ISC at Lima, Peru) backed that resolution in order to block a counterproposal by three Communist-dominated student unions to censure only the United States for continuing tests...
...proposed ten-floor Health Center at Holyoke St. and Massachusetts Ave. would not exceed that block's 100-foot "business B" zone limit, either, McClennan said...
...resolution: a request that the Air Force investigate LeMay's qualifications to hold general rank. While that was plainly preposterous, the fact remained that Curt LeMay, distinguished air officer, had made in the National Guard Association a powerful enemy that would certainly do its best to block him from ever becoming Air Force Chief of Staff...
...there is no street quite so lively, quite so cosmopolitan or quite so zany as Rome's Via Veneto-the broad, tree lined avenue known to Italy's American colony as "the Beach." And for a decade past, the heart of the Beach has been the polyglot, block-long Caffé Doney. There in the soft Roman night, Italians and tourists alike sat till the wee hours beneath bright sidewalk umbrellas, sipping whisky, apéritifs or coffee, and watching the Via Veneto's endless parade of smartly dressed girls, pomaded gigolos and international celebrities, ranging from...
...last summer Jasper & Co.'s empire numbered 14 companies worth $42 million. It was ready for its biggest deal: the take-over of London's powerful real-estate firm, Lintang Investments, which owns the biggest block of apartments (1,200) in Britain. Jasper bought 51% of Lintang's stock from the company, offered to buy all other outstanding, publicly held shares in a $20 million deal. While Lintang was pending, Jasper also offered to buy up the stock, worth about $4,000,000, in Cardiff's Ely Brewery (259 pubs...