Word: blocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toward Indonesia. The Council wanted to dispatch felicitations to the Indonesians, the Dutch, and the U.N. Commission for Indonesia, whose conciliatory work had been at least in part responsible for the birth of the new nation. But the Russians cast their 42nd and 43rd veto in the Council to block the congratulatory messages. During the debate on the matter, the Ukrainian delegate boasted that Communist guerrillas in Indonesia had launched a new offensive against Soekarno's republic. For Indonesians, as Soekarno himself had put it: "Things are not yet all moonlight and roses...
...million lire ($96,000) fighting fund. In one house in Milan, any customer signing a petition against the bill was awarded one free visit. The girls and the worried madam in a swank Naples house appealed to venerable Senator Benedetto Croce, Italy's foremost philosopher, to block the bill "so that they too might have a prosperous holy year." Letters against the bill poured in on Senator Merlin, who had herself toured Rome's brothels to collect ammunition for her side...
...Southworth stayed-and his $50,000-a-year contract had three years to run-the Braves would have a reshuffled team. By last week, 13 Braves who had been on Southworth's varsity in May had been traded or sold and half a dozen more were on the block...
...surprise of no one, the varsity swimming team defeated the alumni 38-28 Saturday night in the annual varsity annual pre-season meet at the Block-house. In spite of poor times, the varsity managed to paddle out its eleventh straight victories over the oldtimers...
Also on exhibit are painted match box trays and containers, animal, lapel, pins, and greeting cards. There are etchings hand-tinted by W. Harry Smith and linoleum block prints of Boston and Cambridge by Louis Novak...