blockhouse

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Recent Examples of blockhouse That same Christmas in Columbia, a settlement of four blockhouses and 50 settlers founded a month earlier at what is now Columbia-Tusculum, pioneers held a feast. Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2024 One of the original blockhouses overlooks the canal, while the old town is filled with art galleries and craft stories. Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024 Nearby, several of his men sat in the shade of a small blockhouse, holding automatic weapons. Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023 These bolts anchored the blockhouse to the slab, Penders said. Rick Neale, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023 This makeshift blockhouse marks where technicians launched Bumper 8 on July 24, 1950 — America's first rocket from the Cape. Rick Neale, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023 The news touched off a wild celebration in the blockhouse hard by the Vanguard launching platform. Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023 The ultimate penalty was meted out to him in a rural penitentiary on the evening of Nov. 10, 2009, in a stark, concrete blockhouse called L Unit, as Meyers’s brother, Bob Meyers, looked on. Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2022 Few, though, wander over to see the actual Fort Kent, a wooden blockhouse constructed during the Aroostook War of 1838-9, a border dispute between England and the United States that ended without a shot being fired. New York Times, 15 June 2021
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Noun
  • Jordan Spieth, who’s spectacular shot from the bunker remains one of the memorable moments in the history of the Travelers Championship, is returning to play in the tournament June 19-22 at TPC River Highlands.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 21 May 2025
  • His 5-wood on the reachable par-4 14th was a yard from being perfect, instead going into the bunker.
    Doug Ferguson, Mercury News, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • The intent from day one was to have no uncertainty in the dugout and to keep Maresca in place.
    Simon Johnson, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • Yorkville players took Wilbur the rally pig all the way to Peoria, earning a state runner-up finish in 2023 and still have it with them in the dugout every game.
    Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • Ashley Eakin: The DGA Disability alt co-chair fosters hope for the future of accessible filmmaking. Between polishing scripts and holding the fort on set, writer-director Ashley Eakin also serves as alt co-chair on the DGA’s Disability Committee.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 18 May 2025
  • What had started as little more than a fort, and then a fur-trade outpost, chartered in 1837 with a population of a few thousand, Durica explained, had become the fifth-largest city in the world by 1900.
    Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025

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