Word: blanke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prison train, 30 at a time, in Sunchon tunnel on Oct. 20, 1950. Communist soldiers escorted them down the,tracks, told them to hide in an erosion ditch while they waited for food. As soon as the prisoners had relaxed on the ground, the guards opened point-blank fire with burp guns and rifles. U.S. deaths: at least...
...scientists somewhat awed him. Eliot was writing "The Cocktail Party" at that time and decided that he would have to demonstrate that he was working in a methodical way. Each study room at the Institute is equipped with a large blackboard for equations and theorems; Eliot's was always blank. So he gave each character in his play a Greek name, Alpha, Beta, and so on, charting the plot on the board. If the resulting formulae baffled Einstein, so much the better. Eliot left his handiwork on the board for the rest of the year...
...Scholarship office--which used to employ credit checks on the return sheets but which since has given it up--finds that few parents object to the particular form. Approximately 300 fill out the blank each year, only about 10 complain, and one or two refuse to fill...
...where he attended school, even about his pets. To the cloistered Sisters of Notre Dame de Sion. the crime was symptomatic. Said Mère Marthanna: "The world is much closer to falling apart than we sometimes realize." Robert C. Greenlease took a more specific view. He offered a "blank check" for the return of his son-alive...
...Europe last week was making faster progress towards it than it had in all of a year. EDC-the scheme to get the Germans into uniform on the side of the West within the straitjacket of a European Defense Community-had risen from its supposed deathbed. Büro Blank, the embryonic Defense Ministry of West Germany, casually let it be known that 105,000 volunteers are ready to don European Army uniforms; to prove that the Ruhr can arm them (a point that has been proved before), German industrialists staged an impressive display of military trucks and signals equipment...