Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, the Cambridge Department of Human Services recently won a $20,000 state block grant to help the homeless...
...felt-tip pens and knowledgeable left hand, Bidemmi gives those scenes an optimistic glow, heightened by a metaphor: cherry pits. Everyone in the neighborhood, including a pet parrot, eats cherries. The seeds are scattered in the hope that one day there will be a whole orchard on Bidemmi's block, with harvest enough, says the last rainbow illustration, to feed everyone...
...arts, long-suppressed films started coming off shelves and books out of desk drawers. The Chopping Block, a new novel by Chingiz Aitmatov, features drugs as its theme and a former seminarian as its hero. Anatoli Rybakov's forthcoming novel The Children of the Arbat deals with Stalinist terror. This new freedom, said Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko, has developed into a "pre-Renaissance" of the arts...
...their revolt in Manila, Cory, 350 miles away in Cebu, at first lay low in a Carmelite monastery. But as the revolution continued, she hurried back to Manila, ready to take charge. While her advisers collapsed in exhaustion around her suburban bungalow and a gunfight continued less than a block away, the President-elect serenely announced that she planned to take a shower and get changed. Then she had herself driven to her inauguration in her white Chevrolet van, stopping at every red light...
...dozen of those guys over at the Washington Post are already Pulitzer candidates, and the New York Times hasn't even figured out whom to interview," said one Washington media observer as he watched the hometown paper, so wise in the ways of political scandal, get off the starting block ahead of the pack. But the pack is coming on hard. As in Watergate 14 years ago, the Times will surely bring in the reserves for the journalistic war that is now declared and may in the end prove as important as the political inquest about to start over...