Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suffering from a sense that they are invaded. Their neighbor's picture window looks in on theirs, the freeways are too crowded, the beaches are jammed. Says Science-Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury: "The best thing that could happen to New York would be to blow up every other block and plant the rubble with grass, turning it into gardens and pools so that people could get away from...
After that, Newhouse raised his offer to more than $27,000,000, and various branches of the locally prominent McGowin family that held 53% of the stock decided to sell him their block of shares, giving him control of the company. The deal had scarcely been consummated before Newhouse arrived in town to inspect his latest acquisition-which boosts the number of newspapers he owns...
...enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States." Though the law was intended to encourage Negro voting, the U.S. Supreme Court (TIME, April 8) recently opened the way for the trial by interpreting it to cover any attempt to block a citizen's right to interstate travel; at the time of his murder, Penn, an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel, was driving home after training at Fort Benning...
...children are banned from the Institute's eight small, mostly red brick buildings, can run and shout only in the nearby faculty "project," which consists of two-story garden apartments. The passion for privacy is so great that Greek Historian Harold Cherniss, whose secretary recently failed to block a telephone call, barked into the phone: "This interruption is an outrage...
...been leniently interpreted. But leniency or not, there is no excuse for the law; members of the press should turn every Buchanan hearing into a test case to pressure legislation which allows reportorial confidence. In the final analysis of costs to the society, it would be more expensive to block the channels of communication than to protect confidential sources...