Word: blanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malskat described how he had blithely gone about his work, perched on top of a 90-ft. scaffold inside the church. Only scattered patches of the original paint remained, said Malskat, and "even that turned to dust when I blew on it." Malskat decided to fill in the blank walls with pictures of historical figures, schoolmates and local laborers, modeled figures of the Virgin based on photographs of his sister and former German Movie Queen Hansi Knoteck...
...talked suspiciously like a commanding officer: "The new German air force will not be built around World War II flyers, who are now too old. It will be built around youth. It's now become a necessary evil for Germany to rearm." For the record, Bureau Blank, West Germany's shadow Defense Ministry, denied any ties to Galland (it does not like to name names before the French Senate votes). But privately a Bureau Blank man admitted: "Galland, after all, is about the only man we have who's been near a plane in ten years...
...ammunition to a local Marine artillery battery for a 21-gun salute (it was no state visit). Then the harassed protocol men asked the Navy for help. The Navy designated a Miami-docked destroyer to boom the salute, but the ship's captain discovered that he had no blank ammunition for his five-inchers...
...chariot, the hack director would merely requisition a few more horses. But this was not Art, and Oscar was considered a step brother to art (their mother wasn't married-giving an indication as to what kind of Art we are discussing). Adding more extras to fill in the blank spaces was no real innovation, so pageantry was not the answer...
...Bureau Blank (West Germany's provisional defense ministry) an official compared the 200,000 applications from volunteers (mostly former officers) to the half million men needed in the 12-division new army. He shook his head. "In 24 hours we can mobilize enough generals to staff every army in Europe. The only thing we need is soldiers...