Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...mechanic could hardly believe his eyes. Parsons' bright yellow Wynn's Special (representing an investment of $35,000) looked sleek and fit, but under the unstrapped hood the mechanic had found a telltale trickle of water seeping out of a crack in a spanking-new cylinder block. There was no time to change engines, so the mechanic did the next best thing: he filled the crack with metal sealer, slapped a coat of paint over it, then gave Californian Johnnie Parsons the bad news...
...Communist youths' blue shirts dotted every city block in the Russian sector. The kids slept in factories, offices, schools. On the Wulheide, a flat, green plain by the River Spree, 20,000 camped in tents, guarded day & night by People...
...situation is convenient for the VOA, whose engineers note which frequencies the Russians are using in their internal communications. Then the VOA "cuddles" close beside the Russians' frequency, sending its messages on adjacent wave bands. The Soviet jammers cannot block the news from outside without blocking their own messages too. When the Russians switch to another band, the VOA follows, cuddling close...
Another trick, says Herrick, is to broadcast the important news slowly (ten-to-twelve words a minute) in International Code. A great many Russians, Herrick believes, learned to receive code during the war. The jammers try to block this, too, but code is harder to jam than voice transmission...
...this period, if not the game, came from the leser's Rick Hudner. Hudner, filling in for the injured Bill Graham on the second midfield, stole the ball in front of his own goal, out-raced four Elis, and sont the last Blue defender sprawling with a shoulder block on his way in to score...