Word: block
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Mondale's two opponents, Jackson and Gary Hart, saw the dissension over Lance as a last chance to pry away Mondale delegates and block a first-ballot victory. Hart's aides happily spread the word that some 50 delegates who had been unpledged or in Mondale's camp had expressed interest in voting for Hart out of disgust over the Lance affair. Mondale's retreat, however, took much of the steam out of the fledgling revolt...
While Mondale was on the phone to the also-rans, Ferraro slipped out a side door of the St. Francis Hotel and was whisked into a waiting car; Kyros jumped in a block away from his stakeout post in front of a department store. At Oakland Airport, they boarded a Learjet owned by Tom Rosenberg, Mondale's Illinois Finance Chairman, who had been asked by Johnson that afternoon to have the plane flown to San Francisco. Ferraro, chatting with Rosenberg and Kyros on the flight to Anoka airport, a small field about ten miles from North Oaks, remarked that...
Americans have ample miseries of waiting, of course-waits sometimes connected with affluence and leisure. The lines to get a passport in Manhattan last week stretched around the block in Rockefeller Center. Travelers waited four and five hours just to get into bureaucracy's front door. A Washington Post editorial writer reported a few days ago that the passengers on her 747, diverted to Hartford, Conn., on the return flight from Rome as a result of bad weather in New York City, were forced to sit on a runway for seven hours because no customs inspectors were on hand...
Even in a Monopoly game, players buy only one avenue at a time. But in Worcestershire County in central England, most of a 7,200-acre town, Redditch, is up for sale-lock, stock and block. The package includes the land under 6,000 private houses, 5 million sq. ft. of factories, 52,000 sq. ft. of office space, 80 miles of roads, 2,650 parking places, two artificial lakes and a shopping mall adorned with live palm trees...
Flurbiprofen and similar drugs block one of the enzymes that are necessary for all this to happen. And the researchers think this is how the medicine preserved the dog's teeth...