Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writing and worst predictions. Strout makes no attempt to hide his choice in each contest, yet he still seems to revel in a good dogfight. The election between Kennedy, whom he loved, and Nixon, whom he loathed, was "wonderfully close." Never afraid to put his head on the chopping block of prognostication, Strout writes on November 1, 1948, "In a hopeless battle, (Truman) stayed game to the end, and is going down fighting." And on November 16, 1968: Nixon "will probably wind up Vietnam pretty quickly." Occasionally, however, Strout springs some real clairvoyance. In January 1968, he not only says...
Knesset members were outraged. After meeting with Begin, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, who is Matt's superior, announced that Shaka'a would be deported to Jordan. Shaka'a's wife, however, managed to block the expulsion by winning an interim injunction from a justice of the Israeli Supreme Court. Weizman then ordered Shaka'a arrested and jailed until the court hearings...
...atherosclerosis. He found that their chest pains were due to spasm. Said he: "Atherosclerotic narrowing of the vessels is the bystander rather than the culprit of angina in such patients." But, experts agree, a spasm that might merely hinder the flow of blood in a healthy artery could completely block it in one already partly narrowed by fatty deposits...
Goalkeeper Blood improved in the nets immeasurably from last year. He learned how to come off the line and take the ball out of the air, and his kicking ability improved slowly as time went on. He never lacked diving agility or the courage to come out and block fierce shots only inches off the foot of opposing forwards...
...purchases were "consistent with Lesley's long-range goals to consolidate the college campus in the two block area bounded by Mass Ave, Wendell St., Oxford St. and Everett St.," Lewis's letter adds...