Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their first day as defendants had tired them. By 7 the cell block was quiet. All were asleep. Mused a reporter: "I'd give anything for a look at their dreams...
...Nobody to Block...
...Crimson lineman protested: "There was nobody to block out; we just stood around." The fact remains, however, that the B.U. game descended into a farce within a very few moments of the opening whistle. When Harvard scores on three out of six plays and gets all but the last called back; when sub backs seeing action for the first time this year try field goals from the 30-yard line; when a team that can score at will kicks from punt formation on second down more than once, even a football game begins to look more like a circus...
Snow melted as it fell and clouds lowered on Moscow's greatest anniversary celebration of the Red Revolution. Across the Moskva River an electric sign half a block long gleamed: SLAVA VELIKOMU STALINU ("Glory to the great Stalin"). Pravda said: "Thousands of [Stalin's] portraits swam over the columns of the demonstrators and his name, pronounced by millions of lips, went soaring above the harmony of the songs, above the powerful, continuous thunderclap of hurrahs...
...Henry Taylor calls the "bronze grapefruit tree" lamps that flank the entrance, and the gingerbread decorations inside, will re-do the 25 formidable front steps so that they do not make people shrink and slink as they climb them. The giant tomb of Perneb, which stands like a road block before the Egyptian wing, will be tucked into place about two blocks away. The Met will also put in escalators for weary museum-feet, a new, airy restaurant for the hungry, a radio-broadcasting and television studio for the stayaways. One of the Met's three new wings will...