Word: blockful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much power should be delegated to hired school directors, and how much the council should involved itself in day-to-day matters. Usually, the more intimate and limited the community served, the more jealous are parents of their power. Both the Roxbury Community School and the East Harlem Block Schools a community school in New York's East Harlem, serve circumscribed areas and have nosy parent groups. The New School for children, which drawn students from all over Roxbury, leaves considerably more discretion in the hands of headmistress Joyce Grant...
...dare hope that for once TIME is wrong? Your report that Baltimore is contemplating demolishing the Block [March 28] fills me with dismay. Is nothing sacred in America any more...
Desecrate the highways with your abominable posters, if that is your fancy. Laugh at our valiant invasion of Anguilla. Sneer at De Gaulle. Even make friends with the Ruskies. All these will I forgive thee, but knock the Block? Never...
...have seen the wonders of the Far East and marveled at the Pyramids. I have champagned at the Folies and, in the days of our Empire, flown in a Vice-Regal plane. But nothing, simply nothing will ever surpass the sheer deliciousness of my first evening down on the Block...
...border troubles. Exploded Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev: "You are as bad as the bastard Hoxha [the pro-Peking party boss of Albania]!" By the same token, the Rumanian, Hungarian and Czechoslovak parties are likely to assert their independence at the planned Moscow meeting by attempting to block any Soviet plan to excommunicate the Chinese from the world Communist movement...