Word: obstruct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last spring, Professor Shapley, who is also honorary chairman of the Massachusetts Progressive Citizens of America, turned down a bid by that organization to run for governor on the Wallace ticket. He claimed such a candidacy "would obstruct whatever effectiveness I may have in promoting civil liberties and progressive legislation...
Here Father Reinhold interpolated: "I am sure American Catholics, with their deep sense of the sacredness of law, will find it hard to stomach the next sentence: 'How could I obstruct their genuine desire for Christ the Lord by mere formal objections from Canon Law? We sang our old appropriate hymns. I consecrated the piece of hard and coarse Russian bread and the wine . . . Over 300 Catholics and 80 Evangelical Christians came to the Sacred Banquet. The speaker of the Lutherans thanked me, his voiced drowned in tears of joy. He was a student for the ministry from Eisenach...
That impact was recognized and feared by the Stalinists and their friends from the time the picture was being made. Red-front groups did whatever they could to obstruct shooting in Ottawa. Now that the picture is finished, they are voluminously protesting to Hollywood and the press, murmuring of libel suits, threatening to boycott Manhattan's Roxy Theater for a year if the picture is shown there. But 20th Century-Fox intends to open it simultaneously in 500 U.S. theaters...
Winter sports enthusiasts cannot coast down a street on a sled without the mayor's permission, and even pedestrians are restricted. "No person," says one law, "shall remain for a longer time than 20 minutes upon a sidewalk in such a manner as to obstruct the free passage of foot travelers," and anyone who is still lottering five minutes after being told to leave by a policeman, is liable for arrest...
...This generous offer is appreciated," Professor Shapley said, "but of course I could not consider anything of the sort." The leading astronomer, who is honorary chairman of the Massachusetts PCA, added that such a candidacy would "obstruct whatever effectiveness I may have in promoting civil liberties and progressive legislation...