Word: obstructionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As they were located, each pill box, block house, tank trap or tank obstruction was shelled, then rushed by light tanks and infantry. One after one they were destroyed, the beleaguered German advance squads often blowing them up before scuttling back to their heavy forts. Behind them they left land...
> That when the plough hits a rock or stump the tractor will not tip over backward and fall on its driver like some old-time tractors-it slips its back-wheel drive when an obstruction is encountered, keeps its nose down by pulling with its front wheels only.
¶Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil accepted an invitation from President Roosevelt to visit Washington next month. Subjects for talk: trade, continental defense, Dictators. In any picture of the Dictators fostering a totalitarian state in South America, Brazil looms first and largest because its undeveloped areas are widest, its...
Professor Frankfurter declared that had the views of Justice Holmes prevailed, the Constitution would not have been used as an obstruction to the healthy development of trade unionism. He added that if the majority had agreed with the dissenting opinions of Holmes, social peace and economic security would have been...
Ootcher Y. Kootcher, self-styled "Hoist" reporter, looking for a scoop, was directed to the Mount Auburn Street obstruction for possible news. "There's nothing newsworthy there," he said gloomily. "I'll get in touch with the Obituary Department."