Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BUDAPEST IS IN FERMENT TODAY. HUGE MASS DEMONSTRATION HANGS OVER CITY. TEN THOUSAND WORKERS FROM INDUSTRIAL AREAS ARE MARCHING ON PARLIAMENT. RUSSIAN AGENTS TRIED TO STOP THEM BUT HAVE BEEN BRUSHED ASIDE. THEY BLOCK ALL BRIDGES AND SPECIAL PATROLS ARE AROUND PARLIAMENT BUILDING...
...armed help from the West, which might jeopardize their fight; they were confident they could win alone. The fact is, that for all their tanks, the Communists were bereft of one necessary ingredient of Soviet control, a trustworthy party apparatus among the people themselves, able to spot and block trouble...
Since Yale's football team could pass better, run faster, block harder, and tackle more sharply than Harvard's, it goes without saying that Jordan Olivar's Elis outclassed Lloyd Jordan's Crimson, 42 to 14, Saturday, and took possession of the first official Ivy League title...
...soldiers, Hungarian women obliged to go out seeking food for their families disguised themselves as old hags. On one street in Pest lay the nude, violated body of a pregnant woman. The Soviet commander brought in a field gendarmerie called "R troops." The R men set up house guards, block inspectors and kangaroo courts empowered to execute within 24 hours any Hungarian found guilty of "murder, arson, looting," or concealing arms. The orders were signed by a Major General Grubennyik...
...Dental School expansion would have to be integrated with the Medical School's plan. Dean Greep feels, however, that there is "a greater need for increasing the amount of dentists than of doctors" and that the need for dentists is "becoming acute." But there is obviously a serious block then to the expansion of the Dental School: the fact that there is no room at the present time in the Medical School for any more students in the first two years...