Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offender was wearing black pajamas and carrying a Chinese AK-47 gun. But the group kept right on walking, and it was several startled seconds before everybody started firing. Four of the Viet Cong were captured, one by a young lieutenant who hit him with a football body block and a right to the jaw. Later that same night, the Viet Cong massed among the trees for another attack across the runway but were driven off by U.S. jets. Still another large force of Viet Cong tried to overrun a U.S. battalion positioned west of Loc Ninh; they were forced...
Chicagoans paid up to $250 a seat to welcome back one of the landmark buildings of U.S. architecture. The marvel of its day, the Auditorium boasted the first central air-conditioning and heating system, the first "convertible theater" (huge ceiling panels dropped down to block off balconies, reducing the house from 4,000 to 3,000 seats) and a stage that could slide out to cover two-thirds of the orchestra. The acoustics were superb. "I would rather sing in the Auditorium than in any other hall in the world," said Tenor John McCormack, and Soprano Nellie Melba wished that...
Smith lives in a modest house on Cherokee Street in Ward 16. Like most New Orleans' housing, this ward is laid out checkerboard fashion. A block of Negro homes may be followed by a block of white homes. The economic pattern is just as complex; a block of huge columned mansions screened from view by heavy oaks, crepe myrtles, or magnolia trees may be followed by a block of pleasant middle class homes which boast a few palms or maybe a banana tree, followed again by a block of near-shacks with a scraggly clump of gladiolas growing outside...
Thus, City-wide issues are often shunted in favor of questions concerning a neighborhood, or even just a block. Councillors fight to get a sidewalk repaired, a traffic light installed, or a playground cleaned in their strongholds...
Dominant Role. Inland is far from being a family company, but the Block clan, which owns less than 5% of the stock, has long played a dominant role in its fortunes. Chosen last week to succeed Joe Block was his cousin, Vice Chairman Philip D. Block Jr., 61, whose father was Inland's first president. Having worked so long in Joe's shadow, Phil is regarded as a chip off the old Block who will pretty much continue his predecessor's policies...