Word: blockings
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...feds do, though. They know Massino's influence is as big as his girth. For five years, they have painstakingly constructed a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) case against Massino. A windowless room in the FBI's lower-Manhattan office block is filled to the ceiling with dusty files. Here, agents from the Bonanno squad (known in the gumshoe world as C-10) pore over surveillance photos, audio recordings and bank records detailing Massino's alleged three-decade career in crime...
...Indeed, the 9/11 commission was holding public hearings down the block and would gladly have interrupted the proceedings for a detailed explanation from the Vice President of why al-Qaeda slipped down the list of America's foreign policy priorities-below China, national missile defense and, apparently, Iraq-when the new Administration took over. But Cheney made his case on the Rush Limbaugh radio show. This was like George W. Bush choosing to deliver a State of the Union address on Imus...
...captains Lauren McAuliffe and Angela Ruggiero—then both juniors— made an attempt to stop Nora Tallus’ game-winning shot. Ruggiero slid across the ice to block the puck with her leg, while McAuliffe stayed high, hoping to block it with her shoulder or side. But the puck found its way through the pair, and Harvard went home vanquished...
...He’ll go down to block shots. He’ll take that missile in the shoulder or the chest and make that sacrifice for the team...
...That’s what allows him to get into position to block shots...