Word: block
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those who came to say good-bye and express condolences to Jeffrey's family waited in a line extending half a city block to enter the funeral home...
Durant said his customers often complained about the high prices at Woolworth, located halfway down the block...
Harvard, in response to the letdown of the previous game, struck early in game three to lead 6-1 and 12-2 before winning 15-3 on a block by Hart...
...gone on the block in such a high-profile way that her price (not to mention her head) will inevitably go through the roof--and that's a problem for paleontologists, for whom a fossil this good is almost priceless. A nonprofit institution like the (currently Tyrannosaurus-less) Smithsonian, for example, will probably have to scrape up at least $1 million, and possibly more, to get this irreplaceable specimen--which is only partly mineralized and so offers scientists a rare chance to study actual dinosaur-bone tissue. "This will open the floodgates," says Don Wolberg, executive director of special projects...
...Wednesday, combat-ready paratroopers lined the two blocks of Park Avenue in front of the school, stood with fixed bayonets on corners a block away in each direction... A jeep rolled through the barricade at 16th Street and Park Avenue, followed by an Army station wagon and another jeep. The Negroes piled out of the station wagon. Three platoons came on the double across the school grounds, deployed in strategic positions. Another platoon lined up on either side of the Negroes, escorted them inside the building... [Once there the] Negro children reported that they were well treated... During the noon...