Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soon Sullivan's place became so jammed that he had to charge admission to keep the crowd down. Next was "Friday's," so called because it opened on Friday and the first customer allegedly came in exclaiming "Thank God, it's Friday." On busy nights, half-block, hour-long queues now form outside this and other favorite rendezvous...
...ceremony by White House Photographer Cecil Stoughton showed "the presence of a single male Kennedy aide." Indeed, Manchester says that Mary Gallagher, Mrs. Kennedy's personal secretary, watched Kenneth O'Donnell "pacing the corridor like a caged tiger, his hands clapped over his ears as though to block the oath...
...yard dash set the tone for the day. Only one starting block could be found and the finish line was at a 20-degree angle to the lanes. The 40 ft. line in the shot put was marked by a backwards "45." and the track was nearly as hilly as the Franklin Park cross-country course...
Johnson's query about allies, concludes Fall, "seems to have been the key question and the key stumbling block." As it was, Communist gunners continued to blast French resupply planes, isolating the bloodied garrison. Within five weeks Dienbienphu fell, after 10,000 men had died for it-8,000 Viet Minh attackers and 2,000 French troops. Within a day of the garrison's fall, France sued for peace...
...accounts, the bombing is serving no military purpose, and North Vietnamese representatives suggested in January that it is the only stumbling block to negotiations. The military inconvenience imposed by the bombing is obviously insufficient to impel the North Vietnamese to the conference table. The overriding effect has been to heighten the Communists' determination to fight...