Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russell C. Block Berkeley Heights...
...University of Tennessee College of Law, he became a spellbinding courtroom attorney. Following an unsuccessful attempt in 1964, Baker was elected to the Senate two years later. He demonstrated his independence by opposing his own father-in-law, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, on Dirksen's effort to block the U.S. Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote decision. Baker was twice re-elected with large pluralities...
...nearly occluded by an outgrowth of bone. He could barely speak, was unable to smile, and his face, according to the attending doctor, looked like "a block of gnarled wood." The only way he could sleep was to rest his head on his knees. In 1890, longing to sleep "like other people," he lay down on his back, dislocated his neck and died of suffocation...
...Hayes assistant for six years, Bruce relished the challenge of replacing his mentor. "It's a dream come true," he said. Though he is laboring almost literally in Hayes' shadow-the former coach, now writing a book, has an office in a building down the block from Bruce's headquarters-Bruce has retained just two of Hayes' eight assistants and has overhauled Ohio State's antique offensive tactics. When he was at Iowa State, his teams were noted for passing. The Buckeyes seem headed for a similar reputation. They have already tripled the number...
...case you didn't get it, in "The Journal of the Leper," the leprous creature is no longer loved by his woman once he is cured. So instead his characters learn to withdraw; they stick wax ear plugs in their ears like the unidentified man in "Commercial" and block out all but the "subterranean whistling noise" of their own breathing...