Word: obstruct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spreading from limb to limb and country to country in Western Europe. The new phrase, Cold Peace (TIME, Oct. 20)-the notion that Europe can trust the Kremlin to live dangerously, but without going to war-is seized upon avidly by Frenchmen seeking new excuses to obstruct German rearmament, by Britons who fear that rearmament is the road to bankruptcy, by Germans anxious to reopen trade between the Ruhr and Russia. French Elder Statesman Edouard Herriot last week thought the time ripe to try to scuttle the European Army (see below). In Britain, Emanuel Shinwell, former Laborite Minister of Defense...
...Judge Johnson was later indicted for "conspiracy to obstruct justice and to defraud .the Government" along with nine relatives and friends. Four were not tried because of the statute of limitations. Johnson and two relatives were acquitted, but the remaining three were convicted...
...important that those signs be observed," Pyne said. "When cars park in restricted areas, they block access to fire plugs and often obstruct traffic...
...will be "unethical for coaches to use alumni booster, and quarterback groups to attempt to defeat or obstruct administrative or institutional controls athletic." Coaches "should not make demands upon such groups which are not in keeping with the letter and spirit of the existing controls...
...talking pictures proved his undoing. The empire crumbled during the Depression, and bald, sad-eyed Fox was driven out by a coalition of creditors. He went into bankruptcy in 1936, five years later was sentenced to a year and a day and fined $3,000 for conspiring to obstruct justice in connection with his bankruptcy. Afterwards, he lived quietly in Woodmere, L.I., where he practiced his favorite hobby: golf...