Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dropped off his wife Jihan and his two-year-old grandson Sherif Marei, who was to receive medical treatment. At Andrews, Sadat praised Carter for the "brave and gallant act" of calling the summit. In a swipe at Begin, he warned: "No one has the right to block the road to peace. This is no time for maneuvers and worn-out ideas. It is time for magnanimity and reason...
...stickers. A group of snowmobilers who whined into the forbidden area two winters ago and were promptly arrested are now local folk heroes dubbed the Ely Ten. The strife has also been marked by violence: car windows have been broken, tires slashed and 200-year-old trees felled to block access to the canoeing paradise...
...working. The mobile water tanks they brought to the scene ran dry before the fire could be brought under control. The screams of the dying carried into the streets as would-be rescuers stood by helplessly. One witness charged later that the police?whose station is located only a block from the Rex?made no attempt to free those trapped in the inferno...
While men like Andrew Jackson and Daniel Webster debated the future of the Republic in the hall, merchants in Quincy Market across the square sold sides of beef and sacks of potatoes to the citizens. For nearly a century, Faneuil Hall and its three-block-long annexes-Quincy, North and South Markets-stood at the center of Boston's commercial life...
...earnest-looking man in a conservative suit comes on the television screen. No, he is not the fellow from H & R Block offering you another way to save tax dollars or even a used-car salesman trying to appear sincere. He is a lawyer, offering you a good price for a divorce, a will or a suit of almost any kind...