Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Block Party...
...Block's most ardent champion is its reigning queen, Stripper Blaze (40-24-38) Starr. At 34, Blaze is still the liveliest ecdysiast on the Block and heads the bill at her own nightspot, the Two O'Clock Club, whose value she estimates at $500,000. "You have to change with the times," Blaze says. "I'm not against urban renewal, but Baltimore needs a place for conventioneers and tourists." Often half her audience is composed of women friends who work with her on various Baltimore charities. Blaze is respectable and respected, but she is sadly aware...
...Brutish British. Anguilla was ready: a flotilla of lobster smacks, so one story went, would wake the island by blowing horns when a British ship appeared. A herd of goats was supposedly assigned to clog the airstrip, and there was desultory talk of using sharp rocks to block island beaches against infiltrators. Undaunted, the British mustered a force of about 300 men, including the Red Devils, a Royal Marine platoon and bobbies from Scotland Yard, to set up a pacification program. When the British surged ashore, automatic weapons at the ready, there were only a few children to meet them...
...eats a fat-loaded meal, the strength of the anticlotting factors in his blood decreases sharply within two or three hours, proportionately increasing the risk that clots may form and block veins in his legs (thrombophlebitis) or cause a heart attack by blocking coronary arteries. Was it possible, Menon wondered, that onions could cancel out this effect? Menon persuaded the cardiologists at Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle to let him test the idea with 22 volunteer patients...
...levels of the united church?" Balance is the concern. The outline plan already provides that all offices of the new church, including the episcopacy, be open to all races. Ordination of women, on the other hand, and their eligibility to be bishops will probably be a stumbling block for Episcopalians, just as infant baptism will be difficult for the Disciples of Christ to accept. There are hard differences to be resolved before the dream is realized...