Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mora as the chief peace-seeking official on the scene. He quickly announced that the U.S. had advanced him $5,000,000, which he would use to pay civil servants' salaries in both the loyalist and rebel zones; at Mora's orders, U.S. paratroopers moved in to block Imbert's access to the Central Bank. Indeed, the U.S. seemed more and more anxious to have the OAS take over in Santo Domingo. Brazil's General Hugo Panasco Alvim was scheduled to arrive and take over command of the 18,000-man peace-keeping force from Lieut...
...advertising led to his first major acquisition. The Ohio Match Co., which was churning out millions of matchbooks with Hunt recipes on the cover, seemed to Simon worth more than its stock was selling at. He began buying in, got controlling interest in 1946 by snapping up a 20% block of Ohio stock that the bigger Diamond Match Co. had been forced to surrender by federal order. From matches Simon turned to railroads, using Ohio Match money to buy a substantial block of stock in the Northern Pacific Railway...
...first free elections after six years of military rule was his 29-year-old great-grandson, Sadik el Mahdi, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), bearded economist who took honors at Oxford. In a conservative electoral sweep, El Mahdi's Umma (Nation) Party won the biggest block of seats in the new National Assembly, which will convene next month. Two other Moslem conservative groups were its only serious competition. The tightly organized Communists were defeated in the few contests they entered...
...before it splits to form the two main iliac arteries. A familiar feature of insufficient blood supply to the legs, which causes pain in the calf muscles so acute that the victim can hardly walk, is its on-again, off-again nature. Ten days after DeBakey has bypassed the blocked artery with a length of tubing, the patient who previously could walk no farther than a city block without disabling pain can usually go a leisurely mile...
...Georgetown home most nights, rarely takes a vacation. Surrey has a grasp of taxation that has impressed Congressmen and Presidents alike, but he is such an articulate advocate of tax reform and such an implacable foe of tax loopholes that oil, mining and banking interests tried to block his nomination. He helped shape the $1.5 billion depreciation reform of 1962 and the $11.5 billion income tax cut of 1964, regards excise taxes as "a haphazard and discriminatory jumble which was the next logical step in reforming the tax system...