Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more battle-ready than Generalissimo Dirksen, 69. After months of threatening what he calls "extended debate" to block repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act's celebrated section 14(b), Ev's hour had come. Dirksen, who on most days is about as soigné as Margaret Rutherford, even subjugated his mutinous curls, donned a neatly pressed blue suit, and had a shoeshine in honor of the occasion. An occasion it certainly was, presaging as it did one of the few defeats dealt Lyndon Johnson by the prodigiously productive 89th Congress...
Charges were dismissed this week against 11 North Harvard residents arrested for trying to block urban renewal last August. Action in the Massachusetts Legislature, also this week, improved chances that the Boston Redevelopment Authority's demolition program for North Harvard may be drastically revised...
...forming, a dozen minor blood vessels on each side of the chest had had time to enlarge and supply "collateral circulation" to the lower part of the body (see diagram). Over the years, the blood vessels had quadrupled their capacity; they had shunted enough blood around the aorta block to keep Gormley alive...
...parked the car at the Church. The rector had not been there, so we had strolled a block or two to the office of an attorney whom he had met at St. Paul's and encountered several times since. This time our visit was more cordial. We had given him and his wife a copy of "My people is the Earth" for Easter, and I think they were deeply touched. This time he was less suspicious, less defensive, less insistent that we get the hell out of town." We had talked this time of the Gospel, of what a white...
...point that it becomes coercive -- when students lie down on the tracks to block a troop train -- protest changes from essential ingredients to something alien to the liberal tradition," he said...