Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They knelt on the hard, stone floor as Bishop Karl Morgan Block intoned...
Strongest points on this mountainous line were probably between Pontecorvo and Pico, roughly a third of the way from Cassino to the sea. This week the fast-advancing French threw a block on the five-mile road between them, went to work to take both towns...
...BLOCK Philadelphia...
...only parade was American. Promptly at noon 40 full-dressed members of the U.S. military and naval missions emerged from the Embassy in the Mokhovaya, walked sheepishly back & forth and around the block for the benefit of the newsreels. Asked one little boy of a sailor: "Is this the Second Front...
...Rolls Royce popped a peppery dowager. She crossed the sidewalk to the sedate five:story pile, a block from Government House in Buenos Aires. Two policemen, instead of the usual two liveried flunkeys, stood in the high-arched doorway. Head high, shoulders back, Doňa Zelmira Paz de Anchorena turned, walked stiffly back to her limousine. She had come to see with her own eyes what she and many another Argentine had believed impossible: La Prensa, one of the world's great newspapers, had been forced to close for the first time in its 74 years...