Word: block
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in Washington, the Nixon-for-President committee was sweeping out its new headquarters in the abandoned offices of a building-and-loan association. The address: 1726 Pennsylvania Avenue, one hopeful block up the street from the White House...
...even be part of nature's balancing equation. In recent years, however, man has upset that equation, raising the question whether drought may not be the permanent future of the Everglades. Vast reclamation projects have turned swamps into bean, corn and sugar-cane fields, which not only partly block the natural flow of the Everglades "river" from its headwaters in Lake Okeechobee, but also have first claim on the area's water resources. When water is short, little if any is now left over for the wilderness. Immune for centuries to permanent damage from natural disaster, the great...
...party. They seem to have assimilated the fact that independent candidates for President--from Teddy Roos-evelt to Robert LaFollette to Henry Wallace--have accumulated a steadily diminishing percentage of the vote. The real function of a third party, they insist, is "to demonstrate the existence of a block of voters for whose support a major party must bid; to force major parties to alter stands on certain issues and to serve as bridges for movement of the discontented from one party to another, or back to the original party after stands are altered." This is their rather lengthy...
...largest block of money -- about $1.2 million -- will be used to extend the library wing of Paine Hall, and add a floor to the building...
...prosperous as ever, the old market district is changing. Slowly at first, more rapidly now, the wholesale companies are leaving the area--fruit and produce to Chelsea and Everett, meat to the "new market" in South Boston. For tradition's sake, however, some wholesalers will remain in the block-long granite warehouse known as the Quincy Market. The pushcart market is not moving. It will still be native cukes, Italian sausage, and provolone cheese. Hey, buddy, you want some nice bananas? Just ten cents a pound...