Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...system, Lunden pointed out yesterday, has alleviated the old problem of blank seats in the cheering section. Since season ticket holders no longer have to turn in a ticket to get two, Lunden said, the cheering section can be filled solidly, thereby leaving more room for men bringing dates...
...Seething Stew. "[It] would mean that for ten or 15 years Moscow, not Washington, would define the issues." It would also mean asking Congress for a blank check for money and military forces to apply "counterforce" at a moment's notice-impossible to conceive of under the U.S. constitutional system, "even more unsuited to the American economy, which is unregimented and uncontrolled...
...Luck was on my side, for at that moment up came a man whom I recognized as Barbi, the local Communist leader. He also joined in the conversation. Then, seeing me standing near there, he eyed me suspiciously. I stood there with a blank look, and then after a few moments glanced at my watch as if expecting someone. I muttered a few English cuss words such as all Italians have learned. They took it for granted I couldn't understand Italian and continued their talk. Barbi said: 'The way Councilor Gallo went on about red being blood...
Alarming Bugs. The Navajos, fearful at first of the white man's medicine, watched with blank faces while the doctor treated the white traders. Presently some of the bolder Indians began to ask him to patch up their injured horses and to yank their own aching teeth. The Indians soon discovered that the hospital could be useful, too. When a Navajo dies at home, tribal custom decrees that his hogan (hut) must be burned. By hurrying a dying relative to the hospital, the Navajos learned to save their hogans...
...American Method. Finally, Bob Taft let go point-blank at Harry Truman. Republican Congressmen, faced with "clearing away the wreckage . . . of the New Deal," had met their problems with courage and directness. But in every crisis the President "has shown that he is still dominated by the principles of the C.I.O." Harry Truman "clearly believes in the New Deal doctrine of spending, spending, spending. . . . He believes in taxing, taxing, taxing. . . . He insists upon a health plan which will socialize our entire medical profession. . . . He has appointed to office those who believe in control by Government. He has violently opposed every...