Word: block
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That left only one stumbling block: the BBC version of the show would have been government supported, but the CBS plans called for a commercial sponsor. The University has a long-established rule prohibiting Harvard teams from appearing on commercially sponsored programs...
...most clubs, one to three black balls are sufficient to block a person's election...
Wednesday, December 1 BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Gary Merrill, Joan Hackett and Stuart Whitman star in a drama, "The Highest Fall of All." Color. I SPY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). In "Weight of the World," Agents Scott and Robinson try to block the plans of Red Chinese scientists who want to pollute Japanese water supplies with bubonic plague. Color...
...keeping missions. Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Fedorenko last week rejected a compromise proposal by eight small nations that would allow the Security Council's five permanent members-the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and Nationalist China-to "opt out" of paying for any peace-keeping missions they opposed rather than block the missions entirely...
...bishops out of the cathedral in Athens' Metropolis Square, where they had been carrying on their politicking, and a crowd turned out to jeer them. "Christ-traders! You want gold, not God!" someone shouted. The 36 most defiant bishops wheeled off to the Holy Synod Building a block away and went on with their balloting...