Word: obstructionism
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The official grudge against undergraduates is that they often abuse these privileges, entering stacks merely to get boks they might have applied for at the desk, or to sit and study a volume they might just as well have used in the reading room or their own quarters. All this...
But Love was so engrossed with his instruction of several green oars near the bow that he failed to notice the fast-approaching obstruction until it was too late. The crash resulted in a long gash torn in the starboard side, and the ship settled rapidly.
The fatal line consisted of four creosoted poles, invisible in the dark since they were unlighted, strung with two naked copper wires.* The line was raised between nine-thirty and two the night of the accident in accordance with a permit for emergency service granted to Florida Power & Light Co...
Excerpts: "In recent times, . . . certain groups within the legal profession have done much to block progress and to befuddle the legislative processes. Such activities . . . have served to bring the profession into public disrepute." "The impression [has been created! that the profession serves as an instrument of obstruction. We believe this...
In a long speech. Mr. Baldwin dwelt upon the evils arising from too little contact between "distinguished Britons," presumably including the King and himself and "distinguished Americans." In his peroration, which seemed to promise eventual cracking of British obstruction to such contact, the Prime Minister cried: "Uninformed criticism on both...