Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold, grey rain pelted the turrets of Wormwood Scrubs as the 320 prisoners of D block began their nightly "free-association period." Inmates gathered in the block's communal hall to watch the telly or drifted into one another's open cells for an hour and a half of convivial chatter before lights-out. Favorite gathering place for D block's intellectuals was a cozy yellow-and-primrose-painted cell with a 100-book library, a Bokhara rug and a medieval print of St. Paul. There, over coffee and aphorisms, Convicted Spy George Blake conducted his soir...
...D.F.L. convention nine months later was gruelling and bitter but still something of an anti-climax. Keith needed twenty ballots to win its endorsement but Rolvaag didn't even stay for the finale. The governor hoped to block Keith and force the convention to adjourn without endorsing anyone, but even six months of vigorous Rolvaag campaigning in early 1966 and growing apprehension over Keith's dangerous liabilities couldn't turn the Democrats from the course set at Sugar Hills...
...Radcliffe College Council--the college's highest governing body--indicated to Radcliffe Government Association executives yesterday that it probably would not block a student attempt to change the Redbook rule prohibiting parietals after...
...parietal changes. The Masters have justifiable fears that the Houses are evolving willy-nilly, possibly in a direction no one has planned for or wants. But what the Masters must do is formulate a concept of the desirable development of the House system. What they should not do is block sensible reforms such as the parietal revisions because of vague fears that any change would damage the system...
...higher than it had been at the start of the year. Lagging demand for steel, the economy's most basic ingredient, last week prompted giant U.S. Steel Corp. to announce plans to close its National Works near Pittsburgh. "Across the board," said Inland Steel Chairman Joseph Block, "the pace of new orders is not up to where we thought it would...