Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conclave in Washington that the detonation of less than half the megatons in U.S. and Soviet arsenals could send up a cloud of smoke and dust that would block out the sun's light, producing a "nuclear winter" of death from freezing and starvation. Some 100 million Americans watched The Day After, a frightful TV visualization of nuclear blast, fire and radiation.* In Western Europe, demonstrations against the missiles made up in hysteria for anything they might have lacked in numbers. Hundreds of thousands of peace marchers paraded in West Germany, some wearing mourning clothes or displaying faces painted white...
...rare continuing neighborhood disputes concerns O. Henry. The people at Pete's claim that he wrote The Gift of the Magi in a booth there. A plaque at Sal Anthony's, a restaurant on the site of O. Henry's home, half a block from Pete's, insists that he composed the story in "two feverish hours" sitting in his wide front window-writing of the wife who sells her beautiful hair at Christmastime in order to buy a watch fob for her husband, who sells his watch in order to buy her a pair...
...moment Rachel is cogent and socially deft, the next she is twitchy and incoherent. "I just want to be out in the forest by myself. I want people to leave me alone, so I tell them I'm O.K. and go my own way. But I get a block away and lose it. I freak...
When King Birendra of Nepal departed from the southwest gate of the White House last week after a state visit with President Reagan, his limousine was forced to make an abrupt turn to weave its way slowly past a narrow, 3-ft-high stretch of concrete block. The V-shaped barricades took the place of three sand-filled dump trucks that had blocked the gate after threats had been received from Shi'ite groups. These are only the latest in a series of security measures aimed at better protecting the President and fortifying the White House against possible terrorist...
...suite at the Ritz; For Epps and Jack Reardon, the Dead's greatest hits. For Adams House dwellers, a squadron of tanks To ward off those men wielding scaffolds and planks. And Dean John B. Fox, with his fire-eating charms. Gets a new pair of earplugs to block out alarms...