Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...injections of anti-tetanus serum, for example, fail to check tetanus once the poison gets into the central nervous system. Dr. Stern decided that there must be a barrier (a filtering membrane), developed to protect the nerves and spinal fluid from harmful substances and most germs. She called this block the "hematoencephalic barrier...
Sometimes, as in the case of the Cornell game last weekend, a match in the local block-house is necessary when the opposing team makes its only swing east at a time when the Garden is not available...
...hill overlooking the rolling prairie the five tanks assembled. The lieutenant, a veteran of the Americal Division on Guadalcanal, explained the problem: a flanking assault on a road block held by "Red forces." The company moved out. The maneuver went off fine except that, when it was all over, the road block still stood. It was hidden and the tanks had gone right past...
...five beaten lands, by the day of peace, there were lusty movements of revisionists, irredentists, and anti-ratificationists pledged to revise, renegotiate, block or ignore that day's work in Paris...
Stubborn, glum Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, the Polish Peasant Party's leader, tried, amidst jeers, to block the steamroller. Although he and 25 members of his party, now the sole opposition in Parliament, dropped blank votes in the basket, the result was foregone. Next day Bierut named husky, hard-faced, 35-year-old Josef Cyrankiewicz, an able and energetic left-wing Socialist, as Premier. Egg-bald Cyrankiewicz is a onetime artillery officer who was liberated by U.S. troops from the infamous German prison camp at Mauthausen. He has come up fast. Right-wing Socialists accuse him of double-crossing them...