Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just possible, just as two boys in the block who have once fought it out often become the fastest of friends-and there are some very big comrades in the bloc with whom Vietnam would rather not get into a fight-that the united Vietnamese will somehow be able a decade hence to refurbish their picture of our George Washington and our other political forefathers and come again also to respect us, the present-day custodians of their political vision of the Age of Enlightenment. May they and the whole world see in us again, after our ordeals of racial...
...privilege to know Stephen Potter, captain of all gamesmen [Dec. 12]. But he got me one-down by a mistake. In his Lifemanship (1950), a footnote to the "Yes, but not in the South" variant of the Canterbury Block reads: "I am required to state that World Copyright of this phrase is owned by its brilliant originator, Mr. Pound...
...area of Brooklyn. The Budions send their five children to Catholic schools: With the public school system today, they don't get the discipline. If the nuns feel like belting them, they could. And then there's "the mixture" in public schools. I lived on this block practically all my life, and there were very few changes. But more and more it's changing now. More and more superintendents are black, and that's how it all starts. I'm not against all blacks. If they're halfway decent, who minds them? I lived...
Agnew is to present Marcos-and the other leaders on his itinerary-with five milligrams of lunar dust encased in a Lucite block. The gifts are in fulfillment of a promise made by the President last summer when he visited some of the countries on Agnew's tour in the afterglow of the first moon landing...
...prosecuting 102 minor offenders, including several suburban garbage dumps. He is also interpreting the law in new ways. He insists, for example, that "the type of service a public monopoly renders the public is a factor in determining its rates." On this ground, he is trying to block Chicago Commonwealth Edison's request for a rate increase; the utility's power plants still burn coal with such high sulphur content that the company admits they cause 11% of the city's air-pollution problems...