Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crisscrossed with barbed wire suffered un expected casualties. When the U.N. truce chief. Canada's Major General E.L.M. Burns, called for a ceasefire at midnight, the Israelis rejected it because, as a spokesman admitted later, "we weren't through yet." At that time, Israeli forces sent to block off reinforcements ran into a tough fight five miles east on the Samaritan road. For their first big thrust since 1949, the Arab Legion (rechristened the Jordanian army since King Hussein threw out Glubb...
...small chip off a great old oaken block, Sir Winston Churchill's only son Randolph is one of Fleet Street's masters of the art of abuse, especially when he chooses the British press as a target...
After Bill Woodward was accidentally shot and killed by his wife (TIME, Nov. 7, 1955), Nashua went on the block along with his stablemates of the Belair Stud...
...majority business view was probably expressed by Inland Steel Co.'s President Joseph L. Block, who forecast that whatever happens Nov. 6, steel output should approach a 12O-million-ton record next year, rise to a 143-million-ton capacity by 1959. "But it should enhance business confidence," said Block, "if the President is re-elected...
...suburban Virginia, five miles west of downtown Washington, hordes of first-day visitors flocked out to Seven Corners, a 33-acre, $25 million project which compresses the equivalent of four city blocks of stores into a split-level building within one block of the shopper...