Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were arrested by Providence police on October 8--on the authorization of the Brown administration--after they attempted to block a delivery truck leaving a Brown dining hall during a separate walkout by the university's more than 350 dining hall workers. The students face both civil charges and university action that could result in their suspension from Brown...
Legal efforts to block the construction of a high school complex on the site of the park behind the Cambridge Public Library will continue, even though a preliminary injunction to prevent the school's construction was denied, Cambridge lawyer Robert LaTremouille said yesterday...
...Mail we consult our lawyer often six times a day," he says, adding, "Generally we do take his advice, because it's our heads that are on the chopping block...
...cohesive unit. Grogan's love of running with the ball made their jobs easier. With a mobile quarterback, linemen need not pour all their energy into defense of a very small place, the passer's pocket. Says Left Tackle Leon Gray: "With Grogan, a half a block may be enough...
...Neil was raised in Roxbury off Blue Hill Avenue, in a community where Jews were easily block-busted and the Irish were slowly driven out by the immigration of Southern blacks, Puerto Ricans and other non-white minority groups. To the Irish and other white ethnics with blue-collar jobs and modest neighborhood homes, O'Neil is the man who battles the pro-busers, the suburban liberals and the Yankee businessmen. Members of the gun clubs, American Legion posts and bowling alleys think Dapper is Boston's only honest politician, the one who talks their language. He is a veteran...