Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes stumbled through the litter?past twisted metal folding chairs, past splintered wooden benches, past shredded songbooks and Bibles. A Negro woman staggered out of the Social Dry Cleaning store shrieking "Let me at 'em! I'll kill 'em!"? and fainted. White plaster dust fell gently for a block around...
...basement is a small, hot, smelly, crowded, racky place," admits Hodgkinson, "but it's also a happy hunting ground." A three-level, block-long area pocked with gaspipe racks and dingy wooden counters, the basement sells more goods per square foot of space than any other store in the world, accounts for a quarter of Filene's annual volume of $100 million, and is so important to the company that it is run as a completely separate store. On a normal day, up to 100,000 bargain hunters roll through its 16 entrances, and during special sales...
...occupants of the buildings have been notified, and all offices which do not move this fall will be relocated between Christmas and January 1. The front part of Holyoke Hall will be the only old building in the entire block left standing by spring...
...point, the river of placards formed by the first group of marchers filled Tremont St. for almost the entire six-block distance to the Sherwin School. At the school they were met by an equally large throng which had proceeded from the south up Walnut...
Moscow-bound Train No. 7 had just pulled into Naushki, the Soviet railroad checkpoint on the Mongolian frontier. Suddenly, swarms of Red Chinese students dashed out of the coaches and into the station, tied themselves with belts to block the entrances. Then, in the words of astounded Stationmaster Prokop Mikhailov, they "emptied their bowels and bladders on the floor, in spittoons, and on benches. And the men's room was only a few steps away...