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Word: block (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blood's crackback block ("I had to clear him up," he said afterwards.) left a man on first and two outs before sophomore Chuck Marshall poled a 2-0 offering deep over the left field fence to give the Crimson a gutsy triumph over the then league-leading Quakers. Penn had entered the contest with a 5-0-1 record in the EIBL...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Marshall Clouts HR; Quakers Fall, 11-9 | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

Boston police yesterday arrested three persons for disorderly conduct after they allegedly tried to block a truck from crossing a picket line erected by striking Boston University (B.U.) clerical workers and librarians...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: Police Arrest Three Picketers For Blocking Traffic at B.U. | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

Herbert L. Block of the Washington Post--better known as "Herblock"--won the prize for editorial cartooning for the third time in 37 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cheever, Block, Warren Win Pulitzer Prizes | 4/17/1979 | See Source »

...hands of the amateur. It may be possible, for example, to heist Plutonium and fashion bombs to hold the world hostage. Private scientists might produce gene-altering chemicals. Almost any handyman can assemble a plastique weapon aimed at a Prime Minister or a whole city block. It is almost a natural consequence that in fiction, the old-line security bureaucracies, from CIA to KGB to M16, are being outrun by freelancers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Malice in Wonderland | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Schreiber doesn't write much for the Times and edits what she wants. "Editing is easier than writing for me," she explains. "I've never had an anxiety attack about it--there's no such thing, as editor's block...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Le Anne Schreiber: Behind the Desk at The Times | 4/12/1979 | See Source »

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