Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expunged from the records of the University." This surely is a ghastly punishment, but what does it mean? If someone's name is expunged, and then somebody walks into University Hall and wants to know if you ever went to Harvard, what happens? Do all the deans look blank and say they never heard of him? Do they say, "Yes, but we can't utter his name--it was expunged from the records...
...Socialists balked. For seven hours on one day last week and 15 hours on the next, they deadlocked cabinet meetings. Finally, Premier Marie had enough of it. "We are up against a blank wall," he said, "and I don't like the view." He decided to trick the Socialist tricksters, who, he knew, wanted to resign separately from the cabinet and leave him holding the bag. Marie asked to be excused for a minute. "I'll be right back," he said. Most of the ministers thought he had gone to the lavatory. Actually he had gone to draw...
...paying to the road (he had been shown waving to friends). Donaldson's lawyer got a girl witness so mixed up during cross-examination that she began sobbing "I don't know" to questions she had already answered with assurance. Driver Donaldson's mind went completely blank when he finally reached the witness stand, and he wasn't playacting. Said the professor: "A perfect example of retrograde amnesia...
Satchel Paige figures that in 50-odd years he has pitched at least 2,000 games. Record books in the Negro leagues are mostly blank or spotted pages, but even the authenticated feats of the long (6 ft. 3 in.) and languid Satchel are almost as incredible as the legend...
...assisted correspondence course" in "Problems of Modern Society." It included a chorus of All Hail to You, Dear U. of L., a talk by Louisville's unshrinking President John W. Taylor, and instructions on how to enroll (to sign up, just tear off and send in a registration blank; for college credit, enclose $30 tuition and you will get study materials, written assignments and, in due course, exams). Negroes, who by state law are forbidden to study in the same classroom with whites, were invited to enroll...