Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charlie" had dreamed of owning a big-league ball club ever since he was twelve and a batboy for the Birmingham Barons. He tried to buy the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago White Sox, failed each time, finally got his chance when the Kansas City Athletics went on the block in 1960. Plunking down $4,000,000 in cash, he confided: "I'm a baseball...
...crowds began to gather at 7:30 a.m., huddling miserably under umbrellas. One man carried a little wicker stool to wait out the long hours. By 9 the line stretched a block long...
Finally, the Viet Cong were virtually surrounded by the original paratroop unit, a second paratroop battalion, infantry and civil guardsmen, and were being pounded by air and artillery that killed or wounded an estimated 100 Reds. But the second paratroop battalion, ordered to move in and block a Viet Cong retreat, timidly stood off, leaving great gaps through which the bulk of the Reds escaped at dusk...
...these parallels seriously limit them, and could easily lead even a careful scholar toward a pseudo-analytic approach to history. Hughes recounts, for example, how one of his students, studying the life of an armaments expert with pacifist tendencies, could not understand why the expert developed a crippling block against completing the military research he was involved in. "The solution lay right before him," Hughes says. "For the student had quite unwittingly run up against a classic case of inner conflict. His protagonist's technical and military pride were locked in hidden combat with his leftist and pacifist leanings...
...preparation for the construction of Phase 2, which will occupy the remainder of the block, demolition work on Dudley Hall has begun. Although no schedule has been set, Harold L. Goyette, the University Planning Officer, estimates that it will require about two years to complete the Center...