Word: roadblockers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...late April of 1945, a military convoy snaked its way through a thin rain along the tortuous mountain road that winds from Milan along the side of Lake Como to the Swiss frontier. Near Dongo, 30 miles from the Swiss border, the lead armored car was stopped by a roadblock. Italian partisans, members of the fabled 52nd Garibaldi Brigade, began their search. One of the things they found was a grotesque figure of a man in a swastika-marked helmet with a German corporal's greatcoat draped over his black-shirted Fascist uniform. Two days later the squat...
...free-enterprise economy. The Social Crediters readily sold their panaceas to the Depression-racked Albertans of 1935. moved to power on a promise to pay every citizen $25 a month. But Social Credit's early efforts to write the Douglas theories into law ran into a formidable legal roadblock; repeatedly, the courts held that credit and banking were a federal responsibility, threw out provincial easy-credit legislation...
...roadblock to faster reactor progress, said Murray, is the fear of some private utilities that Government reactors (such as those proposed in the Gore-Holifield bill now pending before Congress) would lead to an "atomic TVA." As a way out, Murray suggested that Congress might direct AEC to build some full-scale reactors adjoining AEC plants, thus avoid competing with private power as they would if they were scattered throughout the U.S. At week's end it looked as though some such middle way might have to be found to get the reactor program in high gear-or Congress...
...against Premier Bulganin, feeling that the average American voter will naturally equate all those who agree about H-bombs and disagree with Eisenhower. The Soviets must realize that it is unlikely that voters will follow the reasoning of Bulganin's note to the conclusion that Eisenhower is a roadblock on the highway to peace...
...University of Pennsylvania suffered the year's first major outbreak of spring high jinks. The trouble began when six students decided to set up a roadblock on Philadelphia's busy Locust Street. Within a short while, 500 other students joined the fun, began hurling eggs at police who tried to break up the roadblock. At one point the police appeared to have won the day, but as soon as they left the scene, the students began swarming back into Locust Street, and when the police reappeared, began throwing eggs and stones again. This time the police went after...