Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some twoscore movies (King's Row, Accidents Will Happen), and more lately the host and sometimes hero of TV's Death Valley Days, Reagan, away from the floodlights, has long been politically concerned. As president of the Screen Actors Guild in the late '40s, he helped block a Communist attempt to take over Hollywood's trade unions. In 1959, when 20th Century-Fox laid on a feast for the visiting Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, Reagan refused to attend...
...West finds Charles de Gaulle exacerbating, it can take some comfort in the fact that the Communist block is afflicted with 19 million Gaullists -otherwise known as Rumanians...
Psalms, like its predecessor, is a choral work in Hebrew and is scored for a prodigious cavalcade of instruments including a glockenspiel, xylophone, a pair of cymbals, a suspended cymbal, tambourine, triangle, rasps, whip, wood block, three temple blocks, timpani, snare drum, bass drum and three bongo drums. Conductor-Composer Bernstein made the most of them; he went through his entire ballet routine on the podium and had the Philharmonic Orchestra playing like gods, and the Camerata Singers sounding like angels...
...crash helmet he still wears today. From the start, recalls Fellow Border Reiver Ian Scott Wat son, "Jim drove so fast that most people were scared stiff to sit next to him." Among the 150-odd trophies lying around the 500-year-old farmhouse at Edington Mains is a block of black wood with three toy cars (a Porsche, a Triumph, a Jaguar) mounted on top, along with the inscription...
...with mounting casualties and continued rebel fire, General Alvim ordered his men into rebel territory. Behind a barrage of machine-gun and rifle fire from rooftop emplacements, platoons of paratroopers swept forward into a 40-block area, overrunning sandbagged street positions, searching houses and hauling out snipers. By late afternoon, the paratroopers were four to six blocks deep in the rebel zone, squeezing Caamaño's remaining men into an area barely one mile square. The U.S. troops now stood on the last hill before the ocean, looking down into the shattered rebel stronghold. After two days...