Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more likely that she would sneak her missiles right up to our shores on her many hundreds of submarines, merchant ships, and fishing trawlers and knock us out before any $400 billion ABM system could detect the attack, much less block...
Even so, the strategy of noncontace lasted only up to a point. Some of the fiercest close-in fighting came at Landing Zone Grant, a U.S. fire-support base in III Corps near Saigon. The camp was hastily installed last January to block a vital junction in the Viet Cong's "Saigon River" infiltration route from Cambodia. Two weeks after the offensive began, no fewer than 800 Communist troops stormed Landing Zone Grant, charging through three rows of concertina barbed wire. In the battle, a rocket crashed into the command post, killing the base commander, Lieut. Colonel Peter Gorvad...
...experimental theatre somewhere in the Boston area. Between the three of them, Samshak, the actor, Jerry Reagan, the actor-director, and Ron Beaton, the light technician, they had the necessary qualifications. So with what little money Samshak had in the bank, they rented a storefront in the cinder-block beauty of BRA's Castle Square and transformed it into a theatre. On October 5, 1967, the Atma Theatre (then known as the Atma Coffee-house) opened with Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. The admission price was $1.50, and the coffee was free...
...magazine. On his countrymen's work habits: "The number of people who are actively constructive are minimal compared to the numbers who are just sitting there." On governmental controls: "People will soon need a license to breathe. I know that in Scotland we had to get permission to block up a fireplace in a cottage. It's unbelievable...
...five skaters each circle a banked oval track in a tight cluster. Then one or two skaters from each team break from the pack and attempt to score points by "jamming" or lapping opponents, who fight them off with elbow jabs, strangleholds and something called the "jumping-hip block." Points are scored by passing members of the opposing team...