Word: blanke
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...weight. The train's handful of North Korean passengers peered down at me quizzically. A few even scrambled to the train's third, and last, car, anxious for a final glimpse of what they thought they saw: a Westerner under armed escort heading for North Korea. I waved to blank stares. But we didn't go any farther than that. Apparently by "North Korean border" my guide meant the halfway point across the Yalu, and not the border post, by now quite discernible not more than a hundred meters off. I was disappointed but also relieved at the thought that...
What it did include was a cartographic masterpiece: Clark's map of the West. For the first time the blank spaces on the continent had been filled in with generally accurate representations of mountain ranges and rivers. Prominently marked on Clark's map were the names of dozens of tribes that lived there, in bold type that continues to undermine the notion that the West was ever an unpopulated wilderness...
...waits like this? more ballplayers each day, it seems. Ichiro's on-deck gyrations have become a Seattle model of cool, with little leaguers everywhere trying to keep their faces blank while contorting like pretzels. It is the fourth inning of a recent game against the Oakland Athletics. Lefthander Barry Zito, winner of nine straight games, is on the mound for the A's. As he prepares to step in, Ichiro betrays no awareness that he's enduring his longest drought?0 for 13?of the season. No, as always, Ichiro spends his time running through at least six different...
...expansive homeless shelters, where Zagat’s best-rated Thai restaurant in Boston sits midway between the water-treatment facility on the riverbank and the Miller art gallery in a converted sweatshop. In contrast to its well-explored, much-touted Northern counterpart, the South End is a pristinely blank page in the mental guidebooks to Boston compiled by most students in the area...
Good Mob bosses--the ones who lead long careers and die of old age in their own homes--do not act like Mob bosses. Gotti was foolhardy, he was blowhard-y, he talked too proudly and loudly, and the government finally gave him enough blank tape to hang himself. In 1992 he was sent up for murder and racketeering. If his mobster act was his doom, though, it was also his source of legitimacy. Where did he learn what we expect a Mob boss to look like? Well, where did you? Pop culture's fascination with mobsters--in movies...