Word: roadblocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans started for the scene of the crash. They scrambled up granite slopes past a Yugoslav officer who paid no attention to them. But when they started down the mountain after a futile search for the wreck, the Yugoslavs had set up a machine gun at a roadblock, carefully checked their identification...
When he reached the wooden bridge over muddy Apalachee creek, Harrison jammed on the brakes. A car blocked the bridge. A band of 20 white men, unmasked, armed with pistols and shotguns, moved silently out of the roadblock...
That night, Bevin and his colleagues (in the front rooms) did not get away for dinner. Throughout the last weary hours of the Paris Foreign Ministers' Conference, Bevin and Byrnes had tried to erect the framework of an Austrian peace treaty. Molotov stymied them with a typical Soviet roadblock: he would not discuss the matter before 437,000 supposedly fascist aliens in western Austria had been expelled...
...Friends. I Jeeped up a secondary road well within Yugoslav territory. At the first Yugoslav roadblock about two miles north of Trieste, I was stopped by a group of 20 or 30 men. One of them, a big, bearded character loaded down with grenades and ammunition belts, demanded my pass. I had none, but fished out my typewritten permit to eat at the British officers' mess in Trieste. The Yugoslav examined it carefully for about 30 seconds, broke into a black-toothed grin, said the equivalent of okay, snapped the neatest salute I have ever seen, and waved...
...roadside area was littered with the wreckage of 600 German vehicles-staff cars, trucks, gun limbers, amphibious vehicles, big mobile cranes and antitank artillery. After running into a Red artillery roadblock, the Germans had tried to turn around in search of a detour...