Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S correspondent last week attributed the relative quiet of the celebration to "the desire of the Ulster Government to maintain the status quo, and to the shortage of whiskey." July 12, 1947 in Belfast was not entirely dry, however. As the parade made the turn by the block-long Arcadia Bar, many marchers took a short cut and a pint of Guinness, and joined the parade again as it stomped along singing The Sash Me Father Wore (which was orange, of course...
...Irish Anti-Partition League, contributed his bit toward the sweetness & light that marked the occasion. Said Mr. Conlon: "No doubt the Orangemen put on a grand show. I'd like to see it myself, except that someone would probably recognize me and try to knock my block...
...morning, some 600 of Grand Tower's 1,000 citizens were perched in the school building, the Methodist or Baptist churches, or in tents on the block-square island of high ground. Around them lay the deepest flood water in local history. They had brought portable oil stoves, bedding and other necessities to the island. The Coast Guard boat brought supplies every morning; the movie house rowed in a new film every night. The State Health Department vaccinated everybody for typhoid and smallpox...
Another point for the cynics was that no real progress had been made in its most important project: atomic control. Still another: Russia had used the lethal veto ten times to block action in the Security Council...
...though the difference was hard to tell. It was the Lenin Library in Moscow. Russian propaganda calls it "the world's greatest library," and speaks proudly of its twelve million volumes. It stands, massive and modern, at the start of Kalinin Street near the Kremlin, with a gigantic block-long bookstack...