Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coach Moriarity settled back to watch his sure victory, and two thousand screeming sons of Eli were set to enjoy the same. Then Brooks pulled another surprise. Up to the block stepped junior backstroker John Pringle. Pringle had just finished winning the 200-yard backstroke and had not swum the breaststroke all season. But he was one of Harvard's superstars and the crowd tensed...
Political Block. Many think the only permanent answer is more permanent judges. But even on the state-and local-court level it is hard to add judges. Last week New York's State Judicial Conference despairingly begged the legislature for 125 new judges. "There are areas of this state," said a conference report, "in which calendar delay is reaching such alarming proportions that a breakdown in the administration of justice is conceivable." But similar requests have been made in each of the past eight years with little result. Reason: Democrats and Republicans can never agree on how many...
...July we organized a series of what we hoped would be provocative events: a discussion of Black Power, a talk on the Negro family, a film documentary on the KKK, a movie on block-busting, and a mock trial of Cassius Clay. One of the tutors questioned whether the heavy emphasis on race was a good idea. The rest of us were convinced that, on an apathetic campus--and Shaw was apathetic -- any response was better than none...
...laughter is meant to combine with tears. "Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box," David sings toward...
...mere thought of writing a book on a subject that the late James Thurber tackled should produce writer's block in any author now living. Thurber's The Years with Ross was an epitaph that the volatile and volubly profane founder and editor of The New Yorker would himself have pronounced definitive. Jane Grant has one advantage, and only one, that Thurber lacked: she was Ross's first wife (of three) and helped him start The New Yorker. In fact, she says openly what too many wives secretly believe about their husband's successes: "He would...