Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Safe Boast. Where the water is shallow, the engineers built some twelve miles of trestle. Over two minor channels they flung bridges. But the Navy would not accept bridges over the major ship channels, on the reasonable military grounds that they might be bombed in case of war and block the channels. To meet this objection the authority came up with a unique solution. They would build tunnels instead. But tunnels have to start from dry land. So the authority built four islands on either side of the major channels...
...give meaning to its official title "Peace through Understanding" the Fair solicited exhibits from 80 foreign countries in 37 different pavilions. The United Arab Republic and the "American-Israel" exhibits stood a respectable block apart. In the center of the international area, flags of the United Nations flew in twin rows...
...Bunting said that these new houses may be retained or others rented even after the Fourth House is built. But "everything else along Garden Street in that block will go down," she confirmed, although other houses will have to be bought or rented to make room for the displaced 'Cliffies...
Height of Nonchalance. The bagel makes it at Keeney's and goes on to do everything but split and butter herself. Through the show, she has 18 costume changes and four hair styles. One moment she is hurtling through the air in a celebrational block party, and the next she is singing a deepsong called People ("People who need people are the luckiest people in the world"). One moment she is staggering offstage under a 3-ft. floral headdress that might have been fashioned by a faggot Cherokee, and the next she is an eight-months-pregnant bride...
...Billy Potts owned a tavern in Ford's Ferry, Ky. Its floor was covered with bloodstains; outside, the grounds were filled with shallow graves. Travelers who stayed overnight could not depend on getting up again next morning. Billy's son, a chip off the old block, was caught robbing by two farmers, was forced to leave the state. Years later he returned with a hefty bankroll and a beard. He decided to surprise the folks by not letting on who he was. Not recognizing him, Daddy cheerfully sank a knife into his back, fleeced him, and went...