Word: roadblock
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After we passed the roadblock we decided it would be safer to ditch the car and take to public transportation, which we did, always with the image before us of that one great present. As we discussed our plans with those around us on the train we met nothing but discouragement, but we would not listen to doubters. To much hung in balance. While we talked I grew nervous, and Namo's palms were sweating. At this point Christmas was less than nine hours away...
...biggest man hunts in Arizona's history pursued the murderous Tison family, and police set up a roadblock near Tison's home town of Casa Grande, Ariz. Soon, a silver van slowed at the signal from police, then sped on with a blast of gunfire from its windows. Five miles down the road, alerted deputies at another roadblock fired at the passing vehicle, killing Donald Tison. After a half-hour gun battle his two brothers and Greenawalt surrendered. The father, Gary, fled into the desert...
...Carter's more memorable phrases was his description of his energy bill as "the moral equivalent of war." But the Administration has stumbled so badly in trying to get the program through Congress that the campaign has come to be known by the biting acronym MEOW. A major roadblock during the past five months has been a bitter and largely nonpartisan free-for-all on Capitol Hill over the removal or retention of Government price controls for natural gas. Last week, just a year after Carter first invited the nation into the trenches, the gas deadlock finally appeared...
...wanting Moro found. Common crime in the capital has dropped 60%. Car thefts, which total as many as 150 a day in Rome, have declined dramatically. Police are recovering between 40 and 60 stolen autos a day: the thieves abandon them for fear of being caught at a roadblock...
Around the corner from the ambush site, the occupants of three blue-and-white police cars surveyed the passing traffic. Two blocks away, in the opposite direction, uniformed border police, pressed into special service, manned a roadblock and checked every tenth car or so. They concentrated on large vehicles, whose drivers were made to show identification while the trunk was searched. Every few hundred yards more police, more roadblocks, more searches extended the tight security blanket over the entire Trionfale district...