Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lower-echelon Kommandatura, charged with the day-to-day business of running the capital. Here, each fortnight, white-haired Soviet General Alexander Kotikov rose to read an hour-long prepared indictment of the Western powers, then comfortably settled his 215 pounds in his chair and looked blank and bland while U.S. Representative Colonel Frank Howley crisply replied. Then Kotikov would read another rehearsed document on a totally different subject...
...pompous, vain and unapproachable, that even though he is a good Senator he would make a poor President because of his lack of administrative training. They feel that his conversion from isolationism came long after most men of intelligence had already made the change, that he is virtually blank on domestic affairs...
...best London houses. But Desmond never let social splendor spoil his sense of kindness. He paid constant visits to a crippled veteran who had been his batman in World War II. He spoke tenderly of a doting old aunt, whose senile eccentricity caused her to send him blank postcards at regular intervals. Harriet never saw these two people, but at last she noticed that whenever her husband received a card from his crazy aunt, he broke any previous engagement and paid a visit to-the crippled...
...acquiring the details of Anglo-American general strategy without delay. ... I have taken steps to ensure [my wife's] ignorance and, in view of her youth and political illiteracy, it is impossible for her to entertain the smallest suspicions. . . . [But] I suggest that the method of communicating by blank postcard should be discontinued...
Learning to be at ease with such varied assignments as presidential inaugurations, Olympic ski jumps, an eclipse over Brazil, and Edna Wallace Hopper has converted Grauer into something of a quick-change artist. Last week, for example, he was a solemn reader of blank verse (Living-1948), a slightly sardonic moderator (Author Meets the Critics), a whimsical telecast quizmaster (Americana Hall), a rather bubbly announcer (Chesterfield Supper Club). On the NBC Symphony, he had to hurry ("Toscanini won't wait a second," he confided, "I really have to rush before the downbeat...