Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be an even smaller deposit of sediment than Harry Truman. As the Dixiecrats' candidate for President, he did not stand a chance in the world. He might capture as many as 50 electoral votes-next to Bull Mooser Theodore Roosevelt's 88 in 1912, the biggest block ever won by a third-party candidate. He was the result of Harry Truman's political courage-or lack of political acumen. His appearance had marked the collapse of the compromises which had held the Democratic Party together for 16 years...
...Here he comes again!" Children who had been playing down the street raised the cry. "Here he comes again!" The Russian lieutenant reappeared. He saw the Americans gathered near his motorcycle, and slipped back out of sight. One block away, in a tree-lined sidestreet, Morrow caught up with him. The lieutenant was now accompanied by a Russian private, whose Tommy gun he carried. Morrow said (in Polish, which the Russian understood): "I am unarmed. I want to find out what's happening here...
...when thousands of poor laborers began to arrive in Glasgow. Now 85,000 human beings cram its 252 acres. In many of its tenements 30 people share a single doorless toilet, and the odor of garbage hangs heavy in the stairwells. There is an undertaker on every other block. A Gorbals girl summed up life there: "The cat sleeps with us. If a rat runs over the blankets, he springs...
...touchdown with a series of bullet passes, and lugged the ball around right end for the score. He plowed through the middle for 14 yards and another touchdown. He relied on cutbacks and shiftiness rather than sheer speed. Said one blocker: "It's easy to block for Charlie, because he sets up the blocks." Choo Choo had an uncanny photographic eye that enabled him to get a quick picture of a broken field defense. He accounted for Carolina's third and game-winning touchdown by taking a punt on his own 16-yd. line and squirming 84 yards...
...never ending quest for perfection, Valpey ran his "A" and "B" teams through their entire repertoire of plays at the rate of slightly more than four plays a minute. Lest the men got out of practice, they carried out their blocking assignments against dummies bolstered by large linemen. Nobody seemed out of practice; on every play at least one dummy and lineman would go crashing down from a vicious block...