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Word: blocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forcing a fumble that was recovered by junior defensive lineman R.D. Kern at the Colgate 45. The Crimson then went the distance in five plays, ending on a 15-yard touchdown run by senior tailback Chris Menick down the left sideline on an option play. Menick got a great block from the fullback to get to the corner. The score tied the game, 7-7, with 10:55 left in the quarter...

Author: By Andrew P. Chung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Football Rally Falls Short | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...passed, Miller proposed a delightfully diabolical strategy. He had Bradley, subcommittee chairman of Water and Power for the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, block every federal water project that came across his desk. By the time he and Miller were ready to move their bill, the demand for those "water pork" projects was enormous. Next, Bradley and Miller rolled their reform together with many of those projects in a single piece of omnibus legislation, so that for other lawmakers, the price of getting water pork was a vote in favor of reform. For Bradley, the price was agreeing to pork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Being Bradley | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...visceral and heart-wrenching scene, we witness the escape of a rebel leader, gagged with chicken wire and a wooden block, rush towards his screaming wife and child. He is dragged back, as the Americans watch, paralyzed with indecision, strung between leaving with their precious cargo and forgetting what they have seen, or helping these people escape. As the tortured Iraqi rebel is dragged back, one of Saddam's soldier's kills his wife...

Author: By Nadia A. Berenstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gulf, Anyone? | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...Backstreet Boys. And 'N Sync too, because they're totally ripping off the New Kids on the Block...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's Eating Pop? Notes From The Underground | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...like the New Kids on the Block...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's Eating Pop? Notes From The Underground | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

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