Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cocos yelled: "Bismarck! Tyrant! Dictator! Boche!" They set out to block passage of the law by every parliamentary tactic they could think of. One hundred and twenty Communists made individual speeches. They proposed 250 amendments, each of which had to be voted down by the non-Communist majority. This wrangling went on all night and far into Sunday-for 36 solid hours...
...Dream. Communist strikes and violence were numbing the country. More openly than ever, the Reds admitted that their main objective was to block aid from the U.S. In this crisis, who could form a government? President Vincent Auriol asked 75-year-old Socialist Léon Blum to try. But M. Blum, it seemed, was living in an old man's dream-the dream of a troisième force (third force) which would hold the democratic bastions against Gaullism and Communism alike. In his request to the Assembly for a vote of confidence, Léon Blum antagonized...
...hour later, she waved me over and said: "You were up there quite a while. Is there anyone else along the block whose address you want...
...last time I had met that sort of block supervisor was in Soviet Russia. The time before that was in Nazi Germany...
Rival coaches had little difficulty in choosing two guards, for Eliot's Bob Adams and Captain Greg Nazarian of the Deacons showed clear superiority throughout the seson. Nazarian provided the toughest sector of the Kirkland frontier, while Adams' repeated breakthroughs to block kicks and recover fumbles kept enemy backs on edge. Rounding out the "dream team" is Pat Gilpatrick, sturdy Deacon center, whose line-backing stood out for the third place squad...