Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secrets. In World War I, Hansard staffers showed up at every secret session, were invariably excluded, locked their notebooks in the editor's cupboard at night with the pages blank. They did not even try to cover the secret debates of World War II. Hansard's familiar blue-book (white since 1943) was often delayed a day by bombings, but never missed an issue. Today Hansard sells (at 6d.) or gives away 9,876 copies an issue, the biggest circulation in its history...
...pulled the typewriter over the blank desk top and started to write. "Dear Sir," he typed. It was a difficult letter, but he moved along. The tough paragraph was the one that started, "While my experience has been limited...
Anthropologists are fascinated by the Motilones, whose customs, language and origin are unknown. When the American Museum of Natural History offered Anthropologist Preston Holder the job of snooping on them, he accepted eagerly. Last week, back in New York, Holder told how he, too, had drawn a blank...
...transcribed program with blank periods for commercials-so that it can be sold to any number of sponsors. A few Ziv-produced open-enders: the Wayne King, Barry Wood, Kenny Baker, Easy Aces and Philo Vance shows...
...Benchley-"a very interesting find for collectors" since it is inscribed by Author Benchley to his friend, Donald Ogden Stewart, whose name is misspelled "Stuart"; 2) Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, 1st ed., inscribed ("in bull's blood") to "Garbage-Bird" Benchley, and with "each blank in the text where Scribner's had blushed and put a dash" filled in by Author Hemingway...