Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correspondents knew what to expect when, on the day before the signing, Greek porters unloaded cartons and crates of Arabic goodies, obviously for a celebration, from a DC-3 that had flown in from Cairo. Historic Beersheba, crossroads of the Negeb desert, had been the last stumbling block. By dint of arms, the Jews had Beersheba, and they believed it indispensable as a base for their desert reclamation projects. Before Seif edDin would give it up formally, he had to fly to Cairo for his government's consent. If he got consent, he told the correspondents, he would bring...
...Kalaupapa, has a 60-bed hospital, four doctors, a movie theater, beauty shop, Lions Club, American Legion post, Boy Scout troop. The patients, whose only diversion when Father Damien arrived was getting drunk on the juice of the ki tree, have dances and picnics; they learn rug-weaving, block-printing, sewing, raise food under the supervision of the University of Hawaii agricultural extension service...
...lineup will be pretty fluid, however. Walt McCurdy, who kept Harvard in the game up to the last three seconds against Cornell with his 19 points, will probably see more action tonight than in previous contests. If Walt is as hot tonight as he was Saturday, the Block-house could conceivably be the site of an upset...
...employee gives workers the latest market price of the company's stock three times a day. Employees follow the ups & downs of the stock as eagerly as they follow prizefights or baseball games. There is a good reason for their interest: Sears workers own the biggest block of Sears stock...
...leaders have opposed the group in the groups that the rival intercollegiate organization may 1.) block NSA's efforts to coordinate all colleges around Boston in the national program of projects and 2.) may serve to spread "anti NSA propaganda," because some local schools were not Association members...