Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both speakers looked askance at the announced title of their debate: "Must We Stop Russia," and then, without answering the question, proceeded to delineate how and why the United States must block the U.S.S.R...
...stand with guns loaded on the border of Soviet Russia, in Iran, in China, and in Greece, and our ships control its water outlets to the Pacific and Mediterranean. We are forcing the Russians to fight," Stone said. He proposed that we block communism by building up European economy and assuming a more objective view of the world's "growing pains as it gains stature in unity...
Though no one in the red plush seats out front knew it, there was also hammering, hurrying and rehearsing going on all over the block-square Metropolitan Opera House. High above Valhalla, craning for an occasional amused glance at the tiny gods on stage below, painters swashed away at new scenery of an English fishing village. In rehearsal rooms, catacombed through the six-story building, singers agonized over the strange notes of a new score. On a rooftop stage, conductors and stage directors exhorted another cast fully as large and glamorous as the one before the audience...
...This is the third day of the rush," she groaned, rolling with a block thrown by a hasty customer. "I hope I pull through tomorrow...
...afternoon last week, before a scant ten members of the House of Deputies, Deputy Pomar stood up and read a rousing, 2,000-word manifesto from Communist Leader Luis Carlos Prestes. It was a statement of party position and a call to arms: "We must block the march of reaction . . . resist without weakening . . . fight for our rights. . . We must organize in our places of work, in the mills, on the farms . . . resorting when necessary to strikes. . . Prove to your fellow workers the real necessity of fighting and resisting the government of hunger, the government of political terror. . . We must fight...