Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pint of milk a day by 1970. It was a modest enough goal. Zambia, moreover, was a nation of abundant resources, including a lot of fertile land and much of the world's copper, co-salt, lead and zinc. But political forces lave conspired to block progress toward Kaunda's goal, and he has become so frustrated by the obstacles that at times he is driven to public tears...
Over the next two days, rioting and looting spread over a ten-block area of Hamilton, causing $1,000,000 in damage and leaving seventeen persons injured. Bermuda's British Governor, Lord Martonmere, declared a state of emergency, imposed a curfew and asked for-and received-365 additional troops from Britain. All seemed quiet again by last week, but, like the scent of hibiscus, tension hung heavy in Bermuda's balmy...
...senior at Boston State. The four students all finished in the first six places. Brennan balanced the rest of the slate with Mrs. Barbara Armistead, a Cambridge Civic Association member; Joseph Carceo, former president of the Marsh Post veterans organization: Francis Mahoney, an undertaker on Huron Avenue a block away from the Hickey undertaking establishment; Bernard Flynn, a city worker; Mrs. Bernard Flynn and Mrs. James Sugrue, housewives; James Maloney, a printer; and Patricia Rumsey, a secretary in the county government...
...initiative and Truman just wants to get us in some room and bullshit 'til we all go back to sleep. Someone suggests we go sit down for awhile in Hamilton, the main college classroom building, and we go there. Sitting down turns to sitting in, although we do not block classes. Rudd asks, "Is this a demonstration?" "Yes!" we answer, all together. "Is it indoors...
When I climbed into the sink cabinet, the room was immaculate. We had piled up chairs and tied them together for a barricade and taken shelves from the library to block the windows; but the chairs were metal and the windows hadn't been broken when we were there, so the shelves weren't damaged. I could see very little from the cabinet, so all I know is what I heard...