Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of local businessmen yesterday failed in its first attempt to block construction of a $60 million research center for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Kendall Square near M.I.T...
Bilodeau decided in the huddle to call a fake field goal and passed to Leo in the flat. Getting a key block from, of all people, placekicker Dullea, Leo spunaway from two tacklers and into the end sone...
...crowd was thick at the triangular Dealey Plaza, on the western end of downtown Dallas. There the motorcade slowed down to turn right into Houston Street for one block; then it turned left onto Elm?and, traveling at precisely 11.2 m.p.h., headed down a slight slope past the seven-story, orange brick headquarters of the Texas School Book Depository Co., a private firm that distributes textbooks. Inside the Lincoln, Mrs. Connally turned and smiled: "Mr. President, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you." Replied Kennedy, smiling: "That is very obvious...
Though new workshops and classrooms for the School of Design will occupy the largest single block of space, the new undergraduate facilities will take up more than half the floor area. In addition to broadcasting studios and offices for the radio station, space will be allocated for the Gilbert and Sullivan Players, for the libraries of the Glee Club and Orchestra, for an undergraduate art studio, and for offices and meeting rooms for other organizations...
...from a New York City junior high that has been 95% white to a school whose pupils have been 71% Negro and Puerto Rican. Her parents are members of P.A.T. (Parents and Taxpayers), a group of New York City citizens, almost all of them white, who are determined to block the Board of Education's experimental program for breaking down de facto segregation. Getting the school year off to an angry start, they stunned the nation's largest system with its third massive boycott in eight months...