Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bare of trees. In the long hard winter of the blockade, Berlin's people had to decide whether to accept Soviet Russia's offer of coal or cut down their trees. They chose to give up the trees. At first it was only one tree to a block; before the Russians backed down last week hundreds had gone. But now tiny new seedlings are pushing their way up through the patches of earth where the old trees once stood. More than anything I have seen here, this is a symbol of Berlin's victory. Despite kidnapings, despite...
Break the Flow. Potter outlines several ploys. There is the Canterbury Block...
...Waltham Watch Co., which closed down its plant four months ago, had the cash to get started again. But there was one last obstacle. It had on hand 185,000 watches, enough to satisfy the market for some time, and block the new line Waltham wanted to bring out. Last week Waltham found a quick way to get rid of them. It made a deal with the Associated Merchandising Corp. to clear out all the watches it could at half-price through A.M.C.'s 24 retail outlets...
John Carey made the most spectacular play of the day when he broke through to block a Princeton punt and then fall on the ball in the end zone...
...able to deal with a billion-and-a-half dollars worth of war material when it was controlled by one country 3000 miles, away; when distributed through a disjointed group of very conceivably irresponsible countries, 300 miles distant the guns and planes can be both inflammatory and an efficient block to negotiation. It is pretty shortsighted to entirely rule out possible negotiations designed to case Russian and American tension. If we deposit a huge mass of uncontrolled arms in Europe it would do probably do exactly this...