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Word: block (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...touchdown came on the very next play when Polillio shirked a block at the line, slid into the left flat, and made a shoestring catch before waltzing...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Crimson Loses 31-30 Thriller In Last Minute | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...Sagmalcilar prison, and its human managerie has a telling effect on him from the very beginning. The brash swagger becomes a distant memory, its place taken by a deep sense of shame and humiliation. Billy has been given a new role to play, the new kid on the cell block trying to learn the prison ropes from his more experienced fellow inmates. Everything about the new Billy suggests the chastened boy he has become. He asks about lawyers, means of escape, the life histories of the other foreigners whose follies landed them in Sagmalcilar. Slapped with a sentence of four...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Busted at the Border | 11/4/1978 | See Source »

...June 2, 1976, 35-year-old John Howe lowered the yearly assessment on a piece of property on Charnwood Road in Somerville, a block from his home, by nearly 25 per cent--from $8400 to $6400. This was one of the largest proportionate reductions in residential property taxes awarded that year in Somerville...

Author: By Mark A. Feldstein, COPYRIGHT 1978, THE HARVARD CRIMSON, INC. | Title: Howe Family May Have Used Taxes For Political Advantage in Somerville | 11/3/1978 | See Source »

...with facts. One for Carey shows the Governor staring directly into a camera and reciting the details of how he cut taxes. More facts are crammed in by a written "crawl" on the bottom of the screen. Garth believes in the power of the tube and worries little about block captains and doorbell-ringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Media Mesmerists | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...more threatening figure to the party as a powerful preacher, an intellectual with a reputation for defeating the Marxists in dialogue, and a churchman enormously popular among younger Poles and laborers. Before his election as Pope, it was widely expected that the regime would exercise its veto power to block him from succeeding Wyszynski as Primate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Foreign Pope | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

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