Word: blanke
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...gonna go back,” he said, his face blank, like all the others...
...headquarters, staffed by close to a dozen people, including a campaign manager. Wal-Mart's critics have also changed tack. The United Food and Commercial Workers, after failing to organize workers at Wal-Mart stores, is hoping to build national resistance to the retailer. The union hired Paul Blank, 29, former political director of Howard Dean's campaign, to lead Wake-Up Wal-Mart; Jim Jordan, who was one of John Kerry's campaign managers, is advising Wal-Mart Watch, a group affiliated with the Service Employees International Union. Wake-Up Wal-Mart is calling on parents to boycott...
...somebody to lose theirlife in such circumstances is a tragedy," Scotland Yard said in an apology late last week after London police pumped five bullets at point-blank range into a suspected terrorist who turned out to be innocent. The Brazilian had been wearing an unusually heavy coat for summer when plainclothes cops chased him onto a train and revealed previously secret "shoot to kill" guidelines for dealing with suicide bombers. The incident occurred the day after four bombs went off almost simultaneously on Underground trains and a bus in a chilling echo of the blasts that killed...
...brutal. Not violent, but unexpected—and perfectly representative of the rest of John Boorman’s (“Deliverance”) 1967 noir “Point Blank,” now out on DVD for the first time...
...said, grinning wider than a Cheshire cat and clutching my car keys, my passport out. “I was hoping to do this story”—but blank looks stopped me. Six of them didn’t speak English, and just two could stutter translations and awkward inquiries. My name was April—A-pril. I’d try a chicken wing; no beer, thanks...