Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the assistance of Major Nathan B. Friedman, an Army doctor, they proved that the blood capillaries in frozen areas open their pores and pour plasma profusely into the surrounding tissues. The red blood cells, left behind, stick together to form clots and block circulation...
...central headquarters, Witnesses methodically divided the city into 11,773 four-block sectors. Then, like locusts, they swarmed out, haranguing pedestrians, charging up doorsteps with portable phonographs (message: let Roman Catholics change their ways), hawking the limitless output of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society...
...British also asked all European governments through which the Jewish underground operates to help block refugee movements at their sources and at the exit ports. Governments outside the Soviet sphere promised to do what they could, but there was no prospect of help from the Soviet Union and her satellites...
Enclosed in a white-and-green building the shielded pile looked like a mighty concrete block. A red light warned that it was working. Behind the massive walls, a blizzard of darting neutrons was smashing atomic nuclei, creating hundreds of radioactive isotopes so "hot" that invisible specks of them could kill. All around were vigilant Geiger counters ready to raise the alarm if too much radiation leaked. But the only sound was the hum of the ventilating system carrying deadly gases up the stack...
International's good fortune began when the Government ordered the industry to give up the monopolistic practice of block booking (TIME, June 24). Shorn of the chance to peddle its potboiling B pictures, Universal was left with only two A-makers, Deanna Durbin and Abbott & Costello, to service its outlets...