Word: blanch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solo practically indistinguishable from the whirring of the needle rubbing over the worn-out shellac. But the particular creature being described herein is not merely interested in identification, he is obsessed with it. He lies awake at nght thinking up harder and cleverer quizzes. Even the Chemistry Department would blanch at some of the masterpieces he turns out. There are lots of those falsely reassuring multiple choice questions and an ultra-involved point system which manages to cut away as much credit for every right answer as possible while counting all the wrong answers twice as much. The poor examinee...
...wasn't prepared for the clear white space which greeted her eyes when she turned the communication over. First throught was Irvin H. Blank, research fellow in Dermatology. Or maybe Carlos A. Blanco '49, or Dorothy J. Blanker at the School of Education, or Euan T. Blanch 1M. Finally she sent it to the Lampoon, one-time University funny magazine. "They've been drawing blanks for years," she said...
...forces in Warsaw (see above). Ordered by Churchill in August, the assignment fell to two British units and one Polish flight of the Balkan Air Force. Though they had had months of experience in dropping arms to partisans in enemy-held territory, this job made the airmen blanch. It meant flying 900 miles each way over hostile territory; part over Czechoslovakia, through some of the heaviest flak in Europe. Fighter cover was impossible and all the way back Nazi night fighters would lie in wait for them. Over Warsaw, they had to turn southwest to a certain bridge over...
Evidence from Ontario. Mackenzie King had good reason to blanch at the prospect of an election. August's Provincial election in pivotal Ontario had given the Progressive Conservatives 38 Parliament seats, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (whose backbone is organized Labor) 34, against 14 for Mackenzie King's Liberal Party...
...against the Crusader Yearlings will begin at the same time but will be run over a two and seven-tenths mile route around the horse track. Coach Bill Neufeld's entries will be Russ Farrington, Dick Bryan, Ed French, Nans Hachman, Milton Hughes, Jim McCulloch, Hugh McCaffrey, John Shea, Blanch Lyon, and Max Pincus...