Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plush toy rabbit, drams of perfume, clothing, and a few out-of-term textbooks will go on the block today at Signature's spring auction sale in Radcliffe Yard. Bidding on all goods will start at 11 o'clock...
Next day, 500 policemen patrolled the block around the Stock Exchange and there was no more trouble. The American Civil Liberties Union deplored the "lie-down," saying: "By completely denying the right of access to and from the ... Stock Exchange, the pickets abused their lawful right to picket." But it also found "little or no justification for the club-wielding tactics of the police...
Back in the women's cell block, Mrs. Li and the head matron made up Yoshiko's bed and began assembling her belongings. Both women's eyes were red, as were those of a number of other women prisoners...
...name. He died three years later--but his spirit still lives on today in the school that is his namesake, in Cole Porter sougs, in Nadherny, Jackson, Furse, and Fuche, and in the plaque that commemorates his birthplace in the shadow of the shadow of the Scollay Square subway block...
Opening night has already approached SRO status with block sales to the Boston Copley Club and to the Cancer Club. Seats for later performances are headed for various veterans' organizations, and public sale will begin next week...