Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...While she sits in the hot tub, her troubles oozing away. Brandon fixes a snack in the kitchen. Meanwhile, Derek lurks in the bushes, watching all. When Brandon finishes slicing some cheese with a knife better suited to slicing through jungle, he rams the instrument into the remaining cheese block. Schmoeller cuts away, but he can't resist coming back and lingering on the knife in the cheese. You can guess what happens moments later. Derek stabs the unsuspecting Brandon in the back...
...walked out in the streets of La redo," goes the old cowboy lament. Residents of the Texas town (pop. 91,449) are now asking, "What streets?" Thanks to former officials who "mishandled" city funds, an astonishing 2,720 of Laredo's 5,400-odd blocks need paving at a cost of some $10,000 each. Another 2,000 blocks require resurfacing at $2,600 apiece. With little money available for such work, Mayor Aldo Tatangelo and City Councilman Felipe Sanchez decided to put the streets on the block...
...week before the speech--given by Kwame Toure, formerly Stokely Carmichael--a Maryland state delegate, David Shapiro, attempted to block funding from the Black Student Union (BSU) for the event, saying that Toure's appearance was strictly political. The Diamondback, the university's campus newspaper, reported last month...
...Arnold Arboretum publicist was stabbed to death early yesterday morning in his apartment at 84 Prescott St., a block away from the Freshman Union...
...days of lobbying campaigning in the capital have left organizers optimistic about their efforts to block President Reagan's proposal financial and cuts but they are unsure how many congressmen the national lobby day actually swayed...