Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small room. There is a darkened pool table in the corner. A silent, unblinking pinball machine. A deck of cards scattered across a deserted table. A crude hand-lettered chart on the wall. It lists a series of men's names alongside numbers, above which is written in block letters, WEEKLY POOL...
...behind the bar. The men hunched over the bar are transfixed by that light, as they are every Sunday afternoon of the National Football League season. They sip their shots and beers, puff their cigars, comment on the action -- "Jeez! Look at that! I could throw a better block right now!" -- all without taking their eyes from the light. Even the bartender, a small man with a nutcracker face, manages to draw a beer while glancing back over his shoulder at the light. "Who do ya like?" he says in a shrill voice to no one in particular and then...
...permit school prayer, outlaw abortion and require a balanced budget. He paid for his positions when Republicans won control of the Senate in 1980: conservatives persuaded Strom Thurmond to pass up the job as chairman of the powerful Armed Services Committee and take over Judiciary in order to block Mathias from the post. That maneuver stung Mathias and contributed to his lonely independence...
...tradition that new Senators should listen and learn from their elders, he made his first speech * in defense of the filibuster, and he rose to speak no fewer than 469 times in his freshman year. Throughout his career, he would use the filibuster time and again in efforts to block civil rights legislation...
...bested such high-profile con-tenders as Network for Best Picture of 1976. Avildsen's pride in the picture comes from more down-to-earth achievements, he said. Rocky was completed in 28 days for $950,000 so that even without the multimillion dollar windfall, ticket lines around the block and Hollywood's highest honors, Avildsen said, "it was hard to lose...