Word: block
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...addition to providing badly needed shelf and office space, the new annex will house the Madison papers and those of 22 other Presidents, and incorporate a memorial hall devoted to the works and artifacts of the man it honors. To be erected on a two-block site across the street from the original Library of Congress, the Madison Library will culminate years of effort by Representative Howard Smith (D., Va.), chairman of the House Rules Committee, who represents the congressional district in which Madison lived. It will be the most appropriate possible tribute to the American...
...stage for decades, nor in a Joycean stream of consciousness, which is accepted today. People do not mumble their disgust with the universe while sitting in ashcans, as do the characters of Samuel Beckett. Nor, Composer Gian Carlo Menotti has pointed out, do they have faces half a block wide, as they do on movie screens. In short, the complaint that an art form is unrealistic is the poorest and squarest of arguments...
...very first game, Hayes cut down New York Cornerback Dick Lynch with a vicious block. "I didn't know you could hit that hard," said Lynch. Bob replied: "Well, you're lyin' on the ground, ain't you?" Last week he got a typical rookie's razzing from Washington's Johnny Sample: every time he tried to block Sample, the defensive man would jump aside and slap Bob's plastic helmet with his palm...
...Library's riverfront neighbors--Harvard's Georgian Houses, the Monastery of St. Mary and St. John, and a line of six-story brick apartments--are friendlier. But just outside the yards' northwest corner, Baird Atomic Inc. has a block of three brick manufacturing buildings: another visual headache...
Still remaining is a decision from the state -- it's expected before next Thursday. If the state approves the project, as pro-NASA forced predict, opponents may try to block construction by appealing to the courts...