Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...block wardens met at 8 p.m. in the Borough Hall. It was like a town meeting. The atmosphere was serious, solemn, a little ponderous. They were practical men, met to discuss practical steps to be taken. Nobody suggested the extreme improbability of the Luftwafte bombing this little country town; all the discussion, all the questions centered about the practical details of what to do when the Luftwaffe came...
Sons o' Fun (TIME, Dec. 15). Helza-poppin's first-born is a blue chip off the old block...
...excited last week over an election that seemed to be in the bag. Populous, rich Buenos Aires Province (which surrounds, but does not include, the capital city) voted for a Governor, for provincial senators and legislators. As an added prize, to the winning party would go the largest single block of electoral votes for the 1943 Presidential election...
Marcell Delanny, French Ambassador to Tokyo in 1918, predicted to Professor Merriman, when they both were passengers on a American-bound ship, that "Germany and Japan will join hands and create a block of influence from the Rhine to the Pacific; and then will come the last of all wars, in which your country will play the hero's role, and in which the chief scene of action will probably be the Pacific...
...John's is built in the old, enduring style of its medieval prototypes. Its walls and piers rose block by block of solid granite, whereas many Gothic-seeming churches built in recent years have only a veneer of stone on a steel skeleton. Only steel in St. John's is in the roof beams above the vault, where the Gothic churches had wooden beams. Another old-fashioned feature: it has been built, unit after unit, only when the money was on hand. "We don't owe a penny," said proud Bishop Manning last week...