Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undermine our military prestige and the credibility of any guarantee which we might offer to friendly countries." To counter even this limited threat, McNamara said that the U.S. could set up a "light" anti-missile missile system-as opposed to the "heavy" system that would be necessary to block more numerous and more sophisticated Russian missiles-for $10.5 billion (in current dollars). The Russians, with the chilling ability to kill 50 million Americans, however, will really remain the greater danger...
Among its tourist attractions, Baltimore boasts of succulent crab cakes, miles and miles of red-brick row houses, and the fourth busiest harbor in the nation. It quickly glides over its most famous tourist lure, the seamy, sinful strip known as "the Block," a symbol and byproduct of a police department that ranks with the worst in any major U.S. city...
...most blatant evidence of police inefficiency and probable corruption, said the I.A.C.P. report, is the Block, a "nationally notorious 'Casbah'," only a block from city hall, half a block from police headquarters. The Block is actually a five-block stretch of sleazy-but hardly inexpensive-nightclubs, strip joints and clip joints, most of them openly offering prostitution. The I.A.C.P.'s conclusion: "Public officials have either been 'reached,' or they are incompetent in the performance of their duties...
...raiders," President Joel Hunter caught a plane for California. Impressed by the way in which Simon had moved in to improve Wheeling, Canada Dry and McCall Corp., Hunter proposed that Simon-who knows the corporate-acquisition route better than he knows the way home from his own office-help block the invaders. Simon, on advice of friends at Pittsburgh's influential Mellon National Bank, accepted the invitation. Three Crucible directors stepped aside to make way for Simon men. Simon himself became Crucible's finance com mittee chairman...
...very bad: they hit only 19 of 58 shots from the floor. Princeton's shooting was almost as cold, but the difference was the Tigers' height. The height advantage does not show up so much in the rebounding totals (44 to 35), but the Tigers were able to block about a dozen Harvard shots...