Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaders of the militant Jewish Defense League promised that about 3,500 members would block the march, by force if necessary. Collin and his 90 or so friends had little stomach for that confrontation. Instead, they obtained a ruling from Federal Judge George Leighton that Chicago could not require the bond and had to issue them a permit for a rally on July 9 in Marquette Park, near their headquarters. Said half-Jewish Collin (his Jewish father spent several months in Dachau): "My overall goal was always Marquette Park, where I can speak to my own white people rather than...
...veterans of the polished world of high-priced art. To be sure, nothing like the colossal 700-work collection of medieval ivories and enamels, old master paintings and drawings, Renaissance sculpture and impressionist paintings amassed by onetime German Leather Manufacturer Robert von Hirsch was likely to come on the block soon again. But, even so, the long awaited sale was a stunner. By week's end, with Von Hirsch's collection of impressionist paintings still to be sold, the orders on Sotheby's books totaled a stupendous $22.9 million. By the time the auction concludes this week...
...eleven. Next year Michigan will award the equivalent of 30 scholarships at a cost of $100,000, compared with the 190 at over $700,000 that will go to the men. One hotly debated issue: Should the women athletes be allowed to win the famous block M varsity letter so revered by the men? Football Coach Bo Schembechler and Basketball Coach Johnny Orr protested vigorously that they should not, but the women got the Michigan...
...audience. Self-pity is one of the most powerful weapons in Chekhov's dramatic arsenal, but it only elicits sympathy for his characters because he engages the audience in personal self-pity. The playgoer is not necessarily devastated when the cherry orchard is sold at the auction block or by news that the three sisters never get to Moscow. But it is a rare playgoer who has no nagging, nettling memory of property or money lost, or of a move not made...
...Anchorage's keel rides 52 ft. below the surface like the bottom of a rogue iceberg. Imagine a seven-story office building a block long filled with crude oil, and a sense of the economic and environmental impact of an average supertanker comes clear. A single trip south is worth $11 million to Arco. Refined, this one load could fuel 20,000 cars and heat 6,000 average-size houses for a year. If spilled, it would foul hundreds of miles of coastal beach, kill unbelievable amounts of sea life. Either way, the stakes are high...