Word: blocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem: How do you get Robert Strange McNamara away from Quincy House when 700 students are outside waiting to block his path? Nothing like this had ever happened before at Harvard. Sure, there had been minor stuff, a little picketing, a little heckling, but never this many students willing, despite warnings from the administration, to go ahead with a "disruptive demonstration" and to seek a "physical confrontation." The Students for a Democratic Society [SDS], frustrated with the Defense Secretary, was determined to personally show him what they thought of "McNamara...
...exciting moment. She talks a lot about "love" and the press pool snickers audibly. The Pope listens thoughtfully--perhaps he is just trying to understand her accent--and then steps forward. He reads his welcoming response. Now the photographers are angry--some idiot had lowered the microphones so they block the Holy Father's face. But at least he's worn his red cape--if he'd been in white the pictures would be horrible...
Khrushchev once boasted to a foreign visitor that if Gromyko were asked to sit on a block of ice with his pants down, he would do so unquestioningly until ordered to leave it. Brezhnev's humor, though less brutal, made the same point...
Erickson's oeuvre in Canada's largest West Coast city is a multilevel, three-block megastructure that blends greenery, glass, pools and waterfalls, ramps, steps and terraces, domes, blossoms and trees...
...that, he moved the eclair somwhere into my inner ear. Fearing the Harvard-made custard would soon cut off the air supply to my brain and permanently block my aural passageway, I decided I had better oblige my dinner guests...