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