Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trucks and cars. When the cops refused to budge, the crowd began rocking a police car, intending to flip it over. Anxious to avoid bloodshed, and outnumbered 100 to 1, the police gave way after a brief scuffle. As English-speaking Russian youths-members of the Young Communist League-blocked the view from Western photographers, the students regrouped, marched through the heart of Moscow singing freedom songs. But the police regrouped too, and near Red Square, officials commandeered more trucks to block the entrance. Loudspeakers blared "Entry to Red Square is closed," but the Africans squeezed through a space between...
Chicago Discounter Sol Polk puts it more bluntly: "We've got to have more things that someone can have first on his block." He wants to turn the home inside out with new products. "I'm angry with kitchens," says he. "Once you fix them, you can't change them." Polk would like kitchen equipment to be as movable as living-room furniture, wants pool-sized bathtubs for the whole family, electronic-memory bathroom scales, home steam rooms, and laundry equipment that will wash, dry and fold a towel in seconds...
...always show wolf's teeth. In the North they are more foxy but they have the same teeth. Finding a white who sincerely wants integration is like looking for a needle in a haystack. I once found an honest white man and I was willing to go around the block with him--but no farther...
...come from Mexico's , drought-stricken midsection-mostly from La Laguna, which once produced half of Mexico's cotton but is now a disaster area (TIME, March 15). Each will be moved by the government, supplied with food for a year, given materials for building a cement-block house, 40 acres of fertile land, plus-on a communal basis-five acres of permanently irrigated land and 56 acres of forest and grazing land. Each town will have a school and a health center with a fulltime doctor and two nurses. The government estimates the cost of the Campeche...
...opinion or interpretation--does not allow for the fact that truth in the humanities is plural. But in the sciences such a criticism is almost comically irrelevant. But it is also the singular character of scientific truth that lies behind what is widely referred to as a "science block...