Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over a plan, proposed by U.S. Special Envoy Dean Acheson, which apparently envisages a union of Cyprus with Greece (enosis), with special guarantees for the Turkish Cypriots and a permanent Turkish base on the island. Given suitable face-saving devices, Turkey and Greece might accept. The same old stumbling block is still Makarios, who was once a loud advocate of enosis but now seems to enjoy being head of a sovereign state...
...Auto horns, the plaintive cries of peddlers, and the bray of donkeys blend with the screech of jet planes. With evening comes the sound of 64 nightclubs, the throb of motorboats carrying gamblers up the coast to the Casino de Liban, and the shrill cries of prostitutes in the block-long Bourg Central Square in the heart of town...
...making his round, a team of probably three men was propping a ladder against the 20-foot wall outside. Swinging down inside on a rope ladder they had brought along, the determined crew dashed across 20 yards of open space and up the steps to the rear of cell block...
...PAPAL PRIMACY: "In reflecting on this subject, it distresses us" to see how the Pope is regarded by many non-Roman Catholic Christians as being a stumbling block to Christian unity: "Without the Pope, the Catholic Church would no longer be Catholic...
...already lived in New York's northern suburbs, and seven of its eleven divisions were already located in suburban Westchester. But such practical arguments seem minor compared with the sheer esthetic appeal of the new three-story glass-and-concrete headquarters quadrangle, which would cover a square block in Manhattan. The building rises near an apple orchard on a 443-acre estate, surrounds picturesque Japanese gardens in a courtyard designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi...