Word: blockful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to Oliver on the ice they shot Ali in the sidelines (shouting "Knock his block off Oliver!") and Oliver's father on the other side-although that might have been another game. There's a lot happening on location that you never see on screen. I couldn't figure things out exactly, but sometimes we were at Harvard playing Dartmouth, and sometimes at Cornell-with the help of a few banners and some desultory interior decorating. Cornell lent its uniforms on the condition that its team be shown winning, but Dartmouth seemed to consider it an honor...
...edgy company, expecting a firefight and anxious to at last even the score for their comrades picked off by an invisible enemy, split into three platoons. Two were assigned to take up flank positions and block the escape of anyone from the village. The central platoon (apparently about 30 men), commanded by Lieut. Calley, headed into the village. It met no resistance on the outskirts. But despite the lack of enemy fire, Galley's men in less than 20 minutes ignited "hootches" and chased all the villagers?whether fleeing, standing or begging for mercy?into groups, and shot everyone...
...fulltime staff writer. Obst acknowledges that the service has a left-of-center tone, but he adds: "This is not an antiwar news service, but rather a pro-truth news service." The son of a Los Angeles advertising man, Obst marketed the Hersh story with chip-off-the-old-block hustle. He sat down with a copy of Literary Market Place, which carries the phone numbers of newspaper editors, and started making calls. The approach, Hersh jokingly told him at the time, was somewhat like selling Campbell's soup...
Markus in 1955 bought the nearly defunct Pennsylvania Life Insurance and moved its headquarters to Los Angeles. Using that firm as the major building block, he then formed a parent holding company, Pennsylvania Life Co., which could make acquisitions more easily than an ordinary life insurance company. Pennsylvania Life has expanded to include a mutual fund, Pennsylvania Securities Co., National Central Life Insurance Co. and other insurance firms. Last month Pennsylvania Life joined with H & R Block, Inc., tax consultants, to form a new, jointly owned subsidiary. It will sell mutual funds and insurance to H & R Block clients...
...opening minutes, and the Billikens capitalized on their experience in national competition by scoring at 1:28 of the first period. Mike Seerey found a partial hole in the Crimson defense and fired a low shot into the corner that goalie Bill Meyers had no chance to block...