Word: roadblocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead, the Crimson hit a roadblock in the person of Princeton goalie Ron Dennis. And when the Tigers netminder, playing his final game in orange and black, had turned away 55 of Harvard's 57 shots of net the visitors at Baker Rink were once again in second place...
...decision which categorized MATEP as a profitable entity owned by a "charitable institution" cleared a major roadblock which had prevented the bond issue in the past...
...allowed to drive outsize double-trailer trucks on the full length of the interstate highway system and on most of the nation's 230,000 miles of "primary" federal and state roads. Previously, Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois barred the big rigs entirely, creating a mid-America roadblock...
...NIGHT NEARLY two years ago, three American nuns and a lay worker were making their way toward Zacatecoluca, 45 miles southeast of San Salvador, when five Salvadoran national guardsmen stopped and questioned them. Later, the soldiers claimed the women had tried to avoid a roadblock. No one will ever know the Americans' side of the story: they were raped, murdered and buried...
...foot to find shelter farther north. Along with them went 45 patients from the hospital, who fled their beds and joined the exodus. For a time, said a European staffer who remained behind, "it was deadly, deadly silent." Some survivors, meanwhile, later recalled seeing Christian militiamen operating a roadblock near the southern entrance to the camps, while hundreds of Israeli soldiers stood...