Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late August, Committeeman Thomas Eisenstadt ignited the racial issue by attempting to block the busing of 583 children out of over-crowded Roxbury schools, a plan proposed by the Superintendent. Eisenstadt's motion passed, with Gartland and Thomas Lee dissenting. Although nearly a thousand pupils of both races had been bused the year before, for the same reasons, busing suddenly loomed as a dramatic threat of the "neighborhood school...
Leverett took over on the 16 and made its only offensive showing of the night. With the help of two penalties and the powerhouse running of Jim Thompson, the Bunnies marched to the Puritan 16. Then Leverett quarterback Steve Ekdahl rolled to his right, picked up a key block from Leo Swift, and outran the Winthrop secondary into the end zone...
John Tyson, another good-looking freshman back, scored next on a 14-yard power play over right guard. Tyson later threw a big block to spring Gatto on the screen pass...
Before Dullea could get the ball off, Penn's Tom Owen hurtled in to block the attempt. As the loose ball bounced away, the Quakers' Denny Lynch gave it a tremendous kick that sent it skipping far downfield to the Harvard 33, where Lynch caught up with it and fell...
When the unhappy clerical worker consulted Dr. Manrico Troncelliti of Pennsylvania's Sacred Heart Hospital in Norristown, he seemed a veritable caricature of obesity. He was 5 ft. 2 in. tall and weighed 376 lbs. He could hardly walk a city block and not tie his own shoelaces. He had a bleeding ulcer on his leg that refused to heal-a common problem of the grossly overweight...