Word: roadblocking
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High Proof. In San Bruno, Calif., police patrols stopped hundreds of cars to check drivers for intoxication, landed nary a drinker, found down the road a homemade sign reading: "Roadblock ahead. Lushes turn right...
FAST-MOVING VOLKSWAGEN, which accounted for more than $75 million of the $175 million foreign-car sales in U.S. last year, now faces Government roadblock. In antitrust suit, Justice Department charged that major U.S. distributor, Volkswagen of America, fixed wholesale and retail prices, eliminated competition among its own 14 distributors and 350 dealers by giving them exclusive sales territories, forced dealers to sell only to buyers living in their sales areas...
...transfer the Committee favors mostly is the student who has compiled a very good academic record at a school in which he feels he has reached an academic roadblock. Recently admitted examples of this kind of student are a transfer who ran out of Anthropology courses at Williams, one at Middlebury who exhausted the Classics Department, and another from Oberlin who came to Harvard because of its Social Relations Department...
...came to its feet, alive, roaring and stomping its approval: Jack Kennedy had won it by his own display of courage and by turning all good Democrats against the odious Republicans. He was still a long, hard way from the Democratic nomination, but he had broken through a major roadblock...
...cold toughness of the Screaming Eagles abruptly put an end to violence at Roadblock Alpha-or anywhere else around Central High. The Negro children reported that they were well treated inside the school. (Arkansas N.A.A.C.P. Leader Daisy Bates had carefully coached her charges to be prepared for insults, to be dignified when vilified, and above all to reveal no bitterness when questioned by newsmen.) During the noon hour a white boy and girl, both school leaders, saw a Negro boy eating alone. They asked: "Would you like to come over to our table?" The boy smiled gratefully: "Gosh...