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Word: blocking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police did not interfere in the march but did block access to the hill. The smaller group eventually returned to Narodni Street, from where some 10,000 streamed back into Wenceslas Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czechoslovak Marchers Protest Violence | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...Yale's Rich Huff attempt to block Derek Lewis' punt in the second quarter. That's how Huff set up the winning touchdown in last week's Ivy-clinching victory over Princeton...

Author: By M.d. Stankiewicz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: You Should Know Better... | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

...happens, ten of the twelve other young families on their block in Issaquah are also from out of state. For the Cutlips are part of a "northward-ho!" movement of new settlers, mainly from California, who have been streaming by the tens of thousands toward the inviting frontier of the Pacific Northwest. The influx into dynamic areas like Seattle and, to a lesser extent, Portland, Ore., is urbanizing a once rural hinterland and intensifying the Northwest's already bitter debate over local growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Californians Keep Out! | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...left, "Do you really believe 20 times 15 is 30,000?" As someone bursts into song, trilling "Don't make me over," the school's only heterosexual girl, who stays on because she says she likes Harvey Milk, strides to the board and writes I'M STRAIGHT in block letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City: Harvey Milk School | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...masters' new consensus removes a major stumbling block from the plan to change the lottery from its present form, which maximizes student choice. Last year, opposi- tion from some masters helped scuttle aproposal to reserve 25 percent of the places ineach house for random assignment...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Masters Agree Lottery Changes Needed | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

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