Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shrewd Parliamentarian Rankin moved softly and surely. Several weeks before Congress convened he let it be known that he would try to reconstitute the committee. House leaders, sure that they could block the move by burying the resolution in the Rules Committee, paid little attention. Rankin beat them with a flanking attack never before used in Congress...
...cigarets for him. But even the most suspicious of his neighbors did not connect Mrs. Mayer's lodger with many unexplained neighborhood happenings. Sometimes, for hours, strangers sat in parked cars with motors running, only to drive away, return again. At night other strangers prowled the block...
...maintains fairly close liaison from Washington with Allen, Diller, all other public relations officers in the field. But theater PROs get their orders from theater commanders, each of whom is boss in his own bailiwick. Washington would no more think of releasing anything which General Eisenhower had put a block on, or of pulling down anything which General MacArthur had put a balloon to, than it would think of rewriting the Ten Commandments...
...accident call droned in over the radio. Racing down two flights of stairs to the pressroom, he grabbed his camera, ran for his car. Too rushed to put on his tire chains, he set off behind the police ambulance (which had chains) in a skidding, hair-raising, 75-block chase over slippery roads, through red lights, down an icy hill. At the bottom of the hill lay the boy. As the mother backed away from his bleeding body and another badly hurt boy was carried screaming to the ambulance, Photographer Cowan carefully focused his camera,* shot the picture...
...demands was wide, but since both sides were anxious to cease fire, the consultations continued. Harold Macmillan, Britain's troubleshooting Resident Minister at Allied Mediterranean Headquarters, conferred busily with Premier Papandreou and other leaders. ELAS must lay down its arms, but the regency was not a stumbling block. Most likely choice was 54-year-old Archbishop Damaskinos (born Demetrios Papandreou-see RELIGION), whose impartiality and anti-fascist record made him acceptable to both sides. Premier George Papandreou preferred a three-man regency. The Archbishop replied that he would act alone, or not at all. ELAS retired to consider surrendering...