Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stakes are high. Evidently expecting to receive the go-ahead, Harvard has already directed the engineering firm handling the $109 million project to dig up a city block and pour the foundation. The site has been swarming with workers in the past months...
Preserving the cities, then, must involve efforts to deal with the manifestations of social problems--housing and crime for instance--as well as with the social concerns themselves. The form this has taken in recent years is the Community Development (CD) program, a plan providing localities with block grants and the leeway to spend them as they...
...second half, Harvard spent the rest of the game trying to avoid a shutout. However, Brown goalie Will Center foiled their attempts, punching two shots out of the goal, gathering in blasts above his head and to his lower left, and courageously coming out of his net to block a breakaway shot six inches after it left the foot of the Crimson's Gerard Hall...
...good guys has. Harry Lyme sees him before you do. "So long sister, good talking to you. Take care and don't let them work you too hard at that hot-shot school of yours." And he is gone, padding away noiselessly into a doorway a block down in no time...
Nuclear arms production began 32 years ago when an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped a 15-kiloton atomic device on Hiroshima. Prior to this, the largest bomb developed had been the "blockbuster," so named because it was capable of devastating an entire city block. The Hiroshima bomb had a destructive force equivalent to 1300-2000 blockbusters and the one A-bomb virtually pulverized a city of more than 300,000 inhabitants. When President Truman heard the news, he said: "This is the greatest thing in history...