Word: roadblocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians wanted to create an exciting diversion, they did their work well. Twenty Soviet Tommy-gunners set up a roadblock in the British sector. Up wheeled British armored vehicles, backed by 100 troopers, and off moved the Russians. Two little American girls wandered off and 300 soldiers spent six frantic hours finding them. "We just got on a bus," explained one of the tots casually...
Undefeated in six games this year, Poley Guyda's Freshman soccer team hits the first big roadblock in the path of an unbeaten season when it plays Exeter Academy this afternoon at Exeter. Rated as one of the top prep school teams in the New England area, the Exonians are also undefeated and last week beat Medford High School, which tied the Crimson earlier this fall...
...path of such an easy road to relief stands an almost immovable roadblock-the seven Housemasters. For these gentlemen, jealous of the sanctity of their several dining halls, last year threw up their collective hands in dismay at the thought of admitting a mere 23 outsiders apiece to such sacred precincts. Now the prospect of more than twice that number of invaders would be doubly hard for the Housemasters to swallow. And until these men relax a little the unhoused upperclassman can but stand and wait...
...massive roadblock stands in the way of getting that money from Congress. Last fortnight the U.S. Senate Special War Investigating committee had some tough words to say about the highway. The committee concerned itself little with the road's prewar history, much with the wartime chapters, when German submarines threatened sea lanes in the Caribbean and a rush job sought to drive the highway through to Panama...
With the desirability for honors increasing as the criteria of the graduate schools become more selective, the present arbitrary standards of many departments are rapidly approaching the status of an intellectual roadblock. Faced by a variety of requirements, the student is measured for his Latin suffix less on the basis of his work than on departmental precedents and thus is more a victim of a system than a master of his academic fortune...