Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard defense left much to be desired. The Crimson players bunched consistently in front of their own cage, getting in each other's way, blocking goalie Clark's view and leaving the B.C. skaters to whip around and score. Good hockey teams have one or two men playing the point to block shots; the Crimson always had four milling around. Then, when the team was on the attack, the defensemen frequently overcommitted themselves leaving the goal virtually unprotected...
...Year's Day, Torontonians went to the polls to decide the issue, elect a mayor and council. While only 32% bothered to vote, it was enough to block the two-year term, 73,638 to 46,791. Back in for his second term went moonfaced Mayor Hiram Emerson McCallum...
...Chief Executive. No one can expect the Eighty-First. Congress to fill these outlines completely. Important advances will surely be made in some areas, and the President will surely be stalled in others. Lobbyists will still be influential; an alliance of Dixiecrafts and Republicans will probably be able to block some important bills. But the importance of the state of the government this year is that now, after a brief Republican hiatus, the movement towards the human welfare society in America will continue. The President must fight just as hard in the future as he fought before November's election...
Mundt was asked when the committee would disclose the rest of the six names. His reply put him on a par with J. Parnell Thomas as a stumbling block to a just and objective investigation of Communist activities in the U.S. "We will give them out," he wisecracked, "as they jump out of windows...
...military crisis was not easing. On the central front all action had bogged down in snow and mud. Bad weather prevented government planes from dropping supplies to their forces trapped north of the Huai. South of the river, Nanking's wretched defenders struggled eastward to block a Communist thrust to the Yangtze between the capital and Shanghai...