Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Hanoi it was the hour of the siesta. A Chinese soup vendor beat a hollow stick on a block of wood, click-clack-click, to proclaim his wares. Beyond the lake, in the pagoda of the Seven Crows, a wizened old man in a black robe bent in prayer before a dim effigy of the great Buddha. On the deserted curb five tattered Vietnamese newsboys were playing "to'," an Eastern version of craps...
...Blackjack for the Kids. But a few months go, Dearborn began losing patience with Mayor Hubbard's lightheaded antics and heavy-handed rule. Voters reacted angrily when he tried to block a new $4,500,000 hospital which would be paid for with money donated by the Ford Motor Co., winced as he poured city money into a project known as Camp Dearborn, an elaborate public summer camp too far from the city to do most residents any good. When taxpayers complained, Little Orvie simply told them to shut up and raised property assessments...
Last week the State Department, to block his appearance at Red "peace" riots abroad, voided his passport. Robeson would have to stay put a while in the land that has seemed to him, at various times, fascist, imperialistic, bourgeois and warmongering. To the State Department, Robeson's statements did not seem in the best interests of the U.S., or representative of the U.S. people. A sample: "It is unthinkable that [American Negroes] would go to war on behalf of those who have oppressed us for generations," against a country (U.S.S.R.) "which in one generation has raised our people...
Lawrence Mario Giannini, president of the Bank of America, is a frail but stubborn man. When the Federal Reserve Board got a court order last month to block his purchase of 22 banks from Transamerica Corp. (TiME, July 10), Giannini ignored the order. The FRB-and Giannini, too-were well aware that the purchase would cut Transamerica's holdings in California to only four banks, and thus take much of the steam out of the FRB's antitrust suit against Transamerica...
There were seven other entries in the race, which was run off in several heats. Both Gigli and Valentini won their trial heats, though the pro-Communist charioteer was booed when he zigzagged to block all attempts at passing. The third trial heat was won by a sporting newspaper, Corriere dello Sport. In the final runoff, L'Unitá's Valentini minded his charioteer's manners-and came in third. Winner of the 150,000-lire ($240) prize: Gigli and La Liberta...