Word: obstruct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realistic sketching of his characters, largely through details of their conversion. Heliczer's strange form, in fact, seems almost necessary to counter the realistic detail of the young pedant, his acid girl, and their combined sensuality. Heliczer's narrative style is light and lucid, and his humor does not obstruct the seriousness of the piece as a whole...
...policy of reform in North Africa, and thereby saved a part of France's tattered international reputation. But he had not done it gracefully. He had blinked at insubordination by high military officers, tolerated defiance from his own ministers, allowed appointees to modify his orders and obstruct his express wishes. In so doing, he had jeopardized his own claim to leadership. Yet his very temporizing had forced Frenchmen to accept the difficult fact: France must be generous to North Africa or lose...
...mess together. If city and Yard officials got together, they might, for instance, work out a way to revise the Cambridge ordinances in order to permit overnight parking on alternate sides of local streets. Cars parked on the right side one night and on the left the next would obstruct neither fire engines nor street cleaners. And they might even become useful things to have around again...
...property (there isn't) while he's not going to worry about illegally parked cars till he sees all the city's parking lots, garages and driveways bulging with autos every night. Ready, who really isn't too worried either, feels that parked cars are a fire hazard and obstruct refuse and snow removal...
Meanwhile, Geoffrey M. Kalmus '56, president of the undergraduate station, again accused Johnston of trying to obstruct his organizations's broadcast. Kalmus asserted that the television cameraman was merely the latest of Johnston's "excuses" to avoid letting WHRB use the booth...