Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gray says, "we'll eventually have to produce, not just talk" if residents are to begin to work in earnest for Model Cities. To date, many of the active workers have been members of already existing block organizations in the area. New blood is coming in, Gray feels, but he cannot tell how much...
...rubble. An avalanche of bricks littered the streets and open spaces, and loose piles of masonry provided cover for both sides in the battle for the fortress. With every explosion of bomb or shell, the air turned red with choking brick dust. Having fought through Hué block by block, house by house, then yard by yard, the U.S. Marines were now engaged in what a company commander called a "brick-by-brick fight" to drive the North Vietnamese forces from the Citadel. Finally, when allied troops had shrunk the Communists' ground to three fortified pockets, South Vietnamese soldiers...
...party-meaning China-would be "excommunicated"; and 3) that, in order to give the meeting even less importance, party theoreticians such as their own Mikhail Suslov, and not the top bosses, would lead the delegations. Even after getting these concessions, the Rumanians are likely to attend mostly to block any resolutions that might hamper their independence; the same is true of Czechoslovakia's new party leaders, who are showing increasing signs of a more liberal "revisionist" policy...
...scattered his 540 head of cattle, including a prize Polled Hereford bull named Hardean Woodrow Masterpiece-one of whose heifers sold at auction last year for $2,500. Hull does not really expect to get that much for any of the 57 head he will put on the block at his annual auction next August; he'll be satisfied if he clears...
Check. Applies to all means, legal or otherwise, of breaking up an attack. Basic is the body check, which is similar to a football block and carries some of the same restrictions: it cannot be thrown from behind or below the knee. Also it can only be leveled at the man with the puck. Cross-checking, or rapping a player with the stick lifted completely off the ice, is patently illegal. Legal defensive moves include poke checking, which is simply an attempt to jab the puck free, and hook checking, which is usually a desperation gambit-the off-balance defender...