Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while a random housing system would prevent us from choosing where to live, it would put a premium on choosing with whom to live. Groups of 20 people could block together because they would no long have to fear being turned away from a favorite house...
...state troopers of Alabama have turned up at several points in the history of the civil rights movement, usually on the opposing side. In 1963 Governor George Wallace called them out to block school integration in Tuskegee. Two years later they were pummeling black demonstrators on the Selma-to-Montgomery freedom march. So it was less than surprising that when the time came to integrate themselves, they dragged their feet. The force totally excluded blacks as troopers until ordered to hire them in 1972 by a federal court. Then it dawdled in the face of subsequent court orders to promote...
...regime, Begun lived in a cell measuring about 10 ft. long and 5 ft. wide. It contained two narrow wooden cots and an open toilet. At one end was a small window that let in narrow strips of light. "It had metal jalousies to keep out the sun and block the view to the prison yard," Begun said. At the other end was an iron door fitted with multiple locks and a closed rectangular slot called a kormushka, or feeding door...
...response, Cate Enterprises, the operators of the theater, have filed a suit against Hoagland in an attempt to block the termination...
Round 6, is it? President Reagan wants $105 million from Congress for next year's aid for the Nicaraguan contras. Congressionial Democrats are moving now to block $40 million of this year's aid. We revisit the debate that will not die: Should the U.S. support the Nicaraguan resistance...