Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...irritating stumbling block in American foreign policy is the 19-year-old Connally Reservation. Offered in Congress by Texas' late Democratic Senator Tom Connally, that legalism reserves for the U.S. the right to refuse jurisdiction of the World Court in cases involving U.S. interests. Supporters of the reservation argue that it is a safeguard of U.S. sovereignty. But opponents, including many international jurists, contend that it emasculates the World Court by depriving it of real judicial power. The American Bar Association has condemned the reservation from the beginning. Yet, so controversial is the question that in 1960 the A.B.A...
...people suffering from severe depression, the enzyme monoamine oxidase breaks down too much of a group of mysterious brain chemicals called amines, in particular, one known as serotonin. The energizers (there are several on the prescription list, under such trade names as Marplan, Nardil, Niamid, Parnate) are supposed to block the enzyme and thus allow the serotonin to fulfill its normal function...
...with Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey originated many of its now standard routines, notably the burning house which explodes a midget high into the air while 30 other clowns fool around with two fire engines; of head wounds suffered in an unsolved murder; in his hotel room, half a block from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden...
Second, while Dr. Graham did express opposition to demonstrations which block highways, he made it clear that he was referring only to incidents such as the proposed stall-in at the World's Fair, or the obstruction of traffic on the Triborough Bridge. He gave his explicit endorsement to recent march from Selma to Montgomery, a distinction which I believe is unclear in your article. Barney Frank Asst. Sr. Tutor
Guided by the computer, which can track simultaneously any reasonable number of airplanes, the alphanumeric block follows the blip through all its turns and circlings. As the plane slants down for a landing, the blocks report its changes of altitude. Even when the scope is swarming with blips there is practically no danger that they will get mixed up, and the controller can always tell from the altitude figures whether planes that are approaching each other are actually in danger of colliding...