Word: block
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Harvard couldn't get the first down, even with the 15 yards, so Reynolds punted. The Crusaders couldn't move either, and with fourth and 23, they prepared to punt it back, but six Crimson helmets converged on punter John Leonard to block the kick, and Harvard took over just 30 yards from a score...
...treat the Sabbath much as Christians now treat Sunday. With the growth of suburbia and the resultant distances be tween homes and synagogues, however, more Orthodox Jews are driving to their synagogues. The difference between Conservative and Orthodox Jews in the U.S., says one rabbi, is nowadays only one block: the Conservatives drive right up to the synagogue, while the Orthodox park a block away and walk the rest...
Black Power, McKissick continued, has come to mean many things to different people. CORE, however, defines Black Power as having six major characteristics: political power, economic power, an improved Negro self-image, development of militant leaders, enforcement of Federal laws, and creation of a black consumer block...
...swing block in New York might best be called the Kennedy bloc. It consists mainly of middle-class and working-class Upstaters and suburbanites, a large majority of them Italian, Polish, and Irish Catholics, who used to vote Republican as a matter of course. They were Upstaters, and Upstaters voted Republican. Robert Kennedy in 1964 changed all that. Although he did not run particularly strong in the city (city liberals were, as usual, busy being finicky and discovering all the hidden virtues of the Republican candidate), he undercut Keating by actually carrying Upstate New York and losing the suburban counties...
...still beat Rockefeller by 600,000. He was, in effect, trying to save his own political skin by doing what he knew in his heart was wrong. He was also recognizing, sadly, the shift of political leverage in New York state from the city liberal to the Upstate Kennedy block. All that remains to be said is that Rose's poll was accurate enough, and that with or without the city liberals, O'Connor should win in November