Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three Views. Earlier the Iranians had tried to sound out Big Three attitudes in London. The U.S. looked hopefully blank: it hoped most of all that nothing too controversial would come up at UNO's first meeting but knew that any attempt to discourage Iran would send a tidal wave of cynicism around the world...
...worldly beauty which would be horrible in real life. Like El Greco, Modigliani liked to stretch people out of human proportion. He graced Madame Hebuterne with the neck and shoulders of a swan. The small, vacant eyes and ski-run nose looked less than human, gave her face the blank, melancholy look of an African mask...
...roared, "Leave the guy alone!" When the gunmen showed no signs of following his advice he seized the nearest by a coat lapel, shoved him into position, then knocked him clear out of the joint with a murderous left. Unnerved, the other holdup men backed out, shooting at point-blank range. Bummy dived after them, swinging wildly and roaring horrible epithets. Bullets hit him in the spine, the lungs, the right arm. He kept swinging his left. He was outside, running for his automobile to give further chase, before he finally fell dead...
Expecting to leave Athens September 22 on the Queen Elizabeth, Elliott cabled his wife to that effect. Another cable soon followed from the frustrated professor, indicating that he was still up against a blank wall. The final development came over the wire from Professor Elliott's secretary in Washington, who assured University officials that the long lost mentor would reach Cambridge early next week...
...dutifully interviewed Chicagoans who came to play in Paris, learned to duck when they wanted a French-speaking guide to the brothels. In 1911, he got excited by Italy's war on Turkey, but when his editors did not share his excitement, "I wrote a furious poem in blank verse, denouncing the peoples of the Western world for [their] complacency. . . . With men killing each other in the desert, I got a request to pick out the best jokes each week from the funny papers...