Word: roadblocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Busy with TV rehearsals and with plans to play the Mad Hatter in Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland, Wynn saw but one roadblock on his upward path. "The only trouble with television," he said thoughtfully, "is that you can be wonderful this week and just as bad the next...
...minus five minutes," chanted Commander Murphy. A guard at a roadblock (all roads across the target range are closed before the firing) reported that a car had broken through the blockade. "To hell with him," said Commander Murphy, "X minus three minutes...
...open-air concert area, smashed the stage, set fire to the camp chairs lined up around it and burned the sheet music. In the surging tumult that followed, at least eight automobiles were overturned, scores of women ran screaming into the woods for safety. The veterans threw up hasty roadblock's but new arrivals piled into the fight until the battle grew to a slugging, shouting riot involving some thousand persons...
...industry's Big Eight (Admiral, Crosley, Du Mont, Emerson, General Electric, Motorola, Philco and RCA). Last winter both big & small manufacturers were booming confidently ahead in the expectation that 1949 was going to be a 2,500,000-set year. This spring they crashed into a roadblock of buyer resistance. By last week, many of the smaller companies were hanging on by their fingernails...
...minutes later, in Jerusalem's Katamon quarter (formerly an Arab residential district, now held by Israeli forces), the Count's cream-colored Chrysler was stopped at a roadblock. From a jeep stepped two men in Israeli army uniforms, carrying Sten guns. While U.S. Colonel Frank Begley (a U.N. observer who drove the Count's car) grappled with one of the men, the other looked into the car, recognized the Count, shoved his gun through the window and started shooting. The bullets went straight through the ribbons on Bernadotte's uniform. Said General Lundstrom, who sat beside...