Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jacques Block, President of the Jewish Federation of Lyon "Forty years have passed...I have forgotten. If they have not forgotten, it is their business." Klaus Barbie, February...
...prepare and the harshest possible verdict would be life imprisonment, since France abolished the death penalty in 1981. Yet how can one every pay enough for crime against humanity, for the thousands uprooted from their homes and sent by the trainload to Auschwitz and other camps? As Jacques Block, President of the Jewish Federation of Lyon, put it: "The crimes of this man are such that there is no penalty equal to them...
...Winthrop St. Church located one block from four River houses began to sign in about five people seeking shelter from the pouring rain. More than five others followed during the course of the night...
...Kennedy St restaurant was enmeshed since 1977 in a constitutional battle over a state law which allowed a neighboring church to block its alcohol permit request. In December the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the law and Grendel's received a rehearing on its case...
...infrared survey of the entire sky, which should become an important guide for future observations. Before it exhausts its helium supply, the telescope is expected to spot as many as a million heavenly objects. IRAS will observe young cool stars now hidden behind veils of tiny dust particles that block ordinary light. It will also study old stars near the end of their lives. Such observations could help clarify the mysteries of stellar birth and death. Closer to home, it may spot the long-sought Planet X, which some astronomers suspect is lurking beyond Pluto...