Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tree-lined 1800 block of West Ninth Street in Bensonhurst is a close-knit neighborhood of working-class Italian families. At least 50 people were outside their neatly kept houses when four shots rang out. Plumber Angelo Treglia, 42, fell dead. After police officers arrived, none of the residents would admit to having seen a thing. "What are they waiting for, another murder?" asked Treglia's tearful widow Tilda, as she begged for someone to identify the killer. Finally, after four days of pleading, Detective Edward Zigo convinced five witnesses that allowing the murder to go unsolved might be seen...
...first quarter, Winthrop noseguard Bob Tedesco made an astonishing block of an Eliot punt to score the first touchdown of the game. During the second half, Eliot kept possession of the ball, but penalties again destroyed them. Winthrop quarterback Brian Towne threw a spectacular 50-yard touchdown pass on the fly in the third quarter to flanker John Hendricks to make the final score...
Although work proceeds regardless of the community's reservations, state officials empowered to halt the project have had more success in gaining consideration of the public interest, threatening to block the project if planners did not provide concessions that would limit the plant's emissions. Officials in the state Division of Air and Hazardous Materials should be commended for their extended efforts to overhaul the plant's design and to exact an agreement from Harvard to restrict the allowed emission level of nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant that can irritate the respiratory system...
...only after division representatives threatened to block the project that plant officials reevaluated their design and discovered last week that it would indeed be possible for the plant to meet the division's recommended limit...
...wounded by critics that he wrote no fiction at all for 30 years. Says Psychoanalyst Yale Kramer, who is studying Melville's life: "He behaved like a child stubbornly remaining silent in a passive attempt at revenge." But even good reviews can bring on writer's block; they tend to paralyze by awakening great expectations. As Author Cyril Connolly, a part-time blockee, expressed it: "Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising...