Word: blanke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soloway criticized the arbitrariness of the proposed budget. "We don't have a budget request at all, but rather a request for a tremendous blank check," he said. He also predicted that a sales tax would fail to collect the estimated $112 million...
...Wouldn't the resolution be a blank check for the Executive to declare...
...apparent blindness are relieved by a shock, Griffin explained: "There was no bump, no jar. Nothing had happened. Suddenly everything looked like red sand in front of my eyes." By the time a doctor arrived, Griffin could make out the color of his blue suit and read a prescription blank. Near shock from the experience, Griffin was put on heavy doses of sedatives, given "cylinder glasses" to help pull his eye muscles back to useful strength. His vision. Griffin estimated, was about...
...Robert Montgomery, Chambered Nautilus is currently on exhibit in Manhattan's Whitney Museum Annual. Four and a half months in the painting, it is a real Wyeth tour de force. Its breeze-blown, transparent valances swaying from the old-fashioned fourposter, its daring use of bare wall and blank window contrasted with the meticulous rendering of wicker basket and window-shade drawstring, require skills and technique that few modern artists even claim to possess...
...curdling shock. Addressing the NATO conference opening session one day earlier, Dulles had carefully set the tone of U.S. participation with an appeal for moral principles in international affairs, cited the British-French cease-fire in Egypt as a compliance with morality. But his newspaper bannered a point-blank refutation of Dulles' argument by an influential American diplomat: his breakfast host, Ambassador Clarence Douglas Dillon. Returning briefly to the U.S. last fortnight, Dillon had paused in Washington to record a radio interview for CBS's Capitol Cloakroom. One inevitable question: Why had the British and French stopped their...