Word: blockful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ragtag Collection. Driving to the district capital of Lethem, the ranchers and some of their Amerindian employees struck at the airfield, where a 600-yard-long block of buildings houses the police station, power plant, post office and even a slaughterhouse. A cop ran from the station house, wrestled with Jim Hart for Hart's rifle; another rebel shot the cop from behind. When the shooting stopped, five policemen were dead. John Hawkins, a Protestant missionary from Texas, rushed to the airport and ran into Jim Hart. "We've talked enough -we're taking action," Hart shouted...
...University Road is an entry in a block-square building behind the Treadway Motor House and across from the Bennett St. MBTA yards. The property of the University, the building was the scene of a still-unsolved crime in 1963, when Boston University student Beverly Samans was murdered in her apartment...
Cambridge has been attempting to block the Brokline-Elm Street route on the grounds that it will cause widespread displacement of families, destruction of scarce low-income housing, and will create a permanent barrier through the middle of Cambridge...
...honed a cutting musical satire ("It's such a drag to have to love a plastic Mom and Dad"). San Francisco's Country Joe and The Fish have focused on the war in Viet Nam as a symptom of national sickness ("Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home...
...there were some murmurs from the audience when Papageno made his first entrance from the prompter's box. But Heinz Joachim in Die Welt summed up the critics' response: "At long last the Hamburg State Opera has cleaned out both the antiquated conceptions and modern profundity that block the view of Mozart's Magic Flute...