Word: obstructiveness
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...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...
...began soon after Prime Minister Strydom, who is determined that nothing shall stand in the way of all-Boer rule of South Africa, rammed through his law breaking the Senate's power to obstruct him. Every day all day, four black-sashed women stood gravely outside the government buildings in Pretoria. They were members of the Women's Defense of the Constitution League. In the two months since, the few have grown to 20,000 members in 200 towns. Whenever a Minister arrived at a public ceremony, 40 or 50 women gathered and formed a silent gauntlet. When...
...interest that Dean Griswold does not even suggest that his professor's fear is reasonable, and indirectly suggests that not fear of prosecution, but an affirmative desire to obstruct the public's right to his evidence, constitutes the true motive for his invocation of the privilege...