Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something from Country C, which the latter can provide if she can get something from Country D; and Country D can provide that something-on condition she gets something which only Germany, and the Ruhr in particular, can produce. Whatever article we take, we finish up against a blank wall-Germany. It is the fact that Germany is not there which paralyzes our calculations...
...walked out of Memorial Hall into the sunlight, and breathed a deep, deep sigh. Well, hour exams were over. For a moment he gazed absently at the small, almost blank piece of paper, and then crushed it into a ball and pitched it into the gutter of Cambridge Street. The throwing arm didn't feel so good. As Vag strolled down through the Yard, now almost completely shaded by the trees, he decided that he had still been right in coming during the hot months. But the Yard was almost deserted; there was only one word...
...bought more machines? They had not been able to buy them. U.S. manufacturers were filling a big backlog of domestic orders. Britain, for example, tried this year to find 100 heavy-duty tractors, could get less than six. Searches for strip-mining excavating equipment and woodworking machinery drew a blank...
...clothes, shoes, furniture, toys, cakes and cider. The gifts are always accompanied by one of Eva's flowery speeches, with constant references to the "heart of Perón" and the "heart of Evita." So standard have these phrases become that opposition Cartoonist Tristan draws bejeweled Eva as a blank face with a heart-shaped mouth as her only identification. Last November, when Evita traveled to the sugar-rich Tucumán province, where sugar workers live in abject peonage, seven people were crushed to death in the rush for gifts. Eva was cool through it all. "I bring...
...paying plan. Why not transcribe a Coward show, and send it to places where it would pull down handsomer rates than BBC can afford? The notion looked sound: for some months, effervescent, 26-year-old Harry Allen Towers has been cutting transcriptions featuring top British artists. The transcriptions have blank spots for commercials and are distributed to sponsors throughout the Empire...