Word: blockful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago, an anti-ABM group is suing the Army and the Defense Department to block construction of a site at nearby Libertyville. The town was Adlai Stevenson's home, and at a recent Chicago rally, his son, Adlai III, said that the choice of the site was a "cruel irony," since much of the thinking for the nuclear test-ban treaty was done in his father's house...
...chief bad-german was a blustery ex-Royal Engineers officer named Major Ralph Bunting, who had been attached to a number of far-out political causes before teaming up with Paisley a year ago. Bunting's Boys soon began laying in wait for protest marchers, first to block their path and later to knock heads. Over New Year's, they bird-dogged a line of student demonstrators on a four-day, 75-mile protest walk from Belfast to Londonderry. On the final day, they ambushed the students, who reached their goal with 81 injured. That night, Londonderry...
...years, La Peregrina (The Wanderer), as the gem came to be called, passed from Philip II of Spain to his English wife Mary Tudor ("Bloody Mary"), then on to the Bonapartes of France, and to England's Marquess of Abercorn. Last week La Peregrina turned up on the block at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, and it was swiftly sold for $37,000. The buyer? Parke-Bernet was not saying, but reporters had an inkling. Less than a year ago, Richard Burton had bought the Krupp diamond for $305,000 at a similar sale. After a little prodding...
...usual, the inmates are restless. They gripe endlessly, snarl out of the sides of their mouths and generally brood up a storm. Finally, the boys in isolation decide to do something about it. They bust out, take over the cell block and hold the guards as hostages. The object of the whole thing is to stall for time so that a few of the riot ringleaders (Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, Ben Carruthers) can tunnel under the wall and make a break for freedom...
...characters in the Warner Bros, pen epics, however, the cons in Riot are a pretty unattractive bunch. They talk dirty and act even worse: they make squealers run a gauntlet, brew up a batch of raisin jack and get high and try to seduce one another in a cell block called Queens Row. The character that Bruce called "the handsome but mixed-up prison doctor, H. B. Warner," has been replaced by a sissified head-shrinker whom the men lovingly refer to as "that faggot psychologist." The warden, usually portrayed as tough but sympathetic, is played as a brutal martinet...