Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practice of unit voting (i.e., of giving a state's entire block of electoral votes to the candidate with a plurality in that state) always raised the possibility that.a candidate might get a plurality of the popular vote and still lose the election. It had happened three times in the past. Unit voting also canceled the effectiveness of minority voters, encouraged the one-party system in the South, and gave big states undue power at political conventions...
Since the election of Presidents is the privilege of the states, it seemed unlikely that the system of electoral votes would ever be abolished. But a constitutional amendment proposed by Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and Texas' Congressman Ed Gossett would eliminate block voting. Under its terms, electoral votes of each state would be divided in proportion to the popular vote, and a mere plurality in the electoral college would be sufficient for election...
...this system, combined with blind landing devices at the airports, will make U.S. flying enormously safer and more regular. But CAA considers the system merely "transitional." The ultimate control system, which will become necessary as air traffic gets denser, will keep the planes moving like railroad trains on a "block system." Each plane will keep to a well-marked "track" in space. Signals on the instrument board will tell the pilot whether the block ahead is clear and whether the next plane behind him is treading on his tail...
...lust of Anne, Henry divorced Catherine of Aragon, broke with Rome, opened an age of bloodshed; while the insolent and ambitious Anne would be Henry's queen or nothing at the start, still his queen or nothing at the end-preferring, in Mr. Anderson's account, the block to banishment...
...syndicate that owns the Washington and Kenmore Theaters and the Opera House in Boston. Attorney William School filed a bid of $45,000 for the purposes of erecting a $250,000 building within six months. Henry J. Shea offered $40,000 in order to put up a block of retail stores. The $34,000 bid came from Albert M. Sateriale...