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The Oscar-nominated supervising sound editor Matthew Wood, a 24-year Lucasfilm veteran, incorporated effects from the original film — the steady metallic hum of Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber, the putter of Princess Leia’s blockade-running ship.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2014

To circumvent the blockage of the North Sea, the company outfitted its own fleet of fast blockade-running ships.

From Time Magazine Archive

But now any similarity between Butler, that blockade-running profiteer, and Brown is frankly causing the Governor to give a damn.

From Time Magazine Archive

During the Civil War the Southern Baptists evangelized fervently among Confederate soldiers, financed their foreign missions in part by blockade-running cotton exports to England.

From Time Magazine Archive

An immense amount of speculation in blockade-running was going on, and a great deal of business is evidently done in buying and selling negroes, for the papers are full of advertisements of slave auctions.

From Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 by Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon