Word: blanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musical. She can sing or do take-offs of singers and adorn a chorus or dance. In the role of a warmhearted answering-service operator, she can quaver like a beldam or give a rumbling impersonation of Santa Claus. But what is perhaps more important, she can look engagingly blank or beguilingly large-eyed, can be daft, sly, small-girl, strong-minded, touching. She is an adroit performer and an inimitable personality...
Arlington fell apart defensively in the final period and allowed the J.V.'s to get in close for shots at point-blank range. Filoon and Crowley both scored again, and Wylde got two goals. The two final tallies were made by defenseman Laurie Pratt and second line center Ed Harding...
...need not tell you about the rest. You know how congenial, how satisfying were the eight after-game parties they crashed, the blank faces, the curious stares, the drone of dull, repetitive remarks, the streaks of sticky gin punch on people's clothing. You know what dinner was like (breaded veal in the house dining hall). You know what the double bill at the U.T. was like. You don't know what transpired later in the car, because the tender togetherness of young lovers can be shared with no one. But Mary Jane pushed, and Hubert steered...
...Since the word "boycott" was coined after Captain Boycott's tyranny, why can't the word "randolph" be interpolated in the English language meaning a memory blank or a "blackout," as Mr. Randolph Churchill so suavely put it [at the end of his flop on the $64,000 Question] ? Perhaps students will now "randolph" their exams...
...other maneuvers to check the trouble in his coalition, Chancellor Adenauer last week also decided to drop several ministers, including Defense Minister Theodor Blank, pale, plodding ex-trade-union leader who was under fire for his handling of army recruitment and equipment. Slated for the defense job is Atomic Affairs Minister Franz Josef Strauss, burly Bavarian right-winger who has coveted Blank's job for six years, was leader of the successful fight to cut the West German conscription term from 18 to 12 months. His cur rent goal: tactical atomic weapons for West Germany...