Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Publisher William Charles Empey (Will's son), decided to keep going. Each day through World War II, the Guide appeared as usual-but the back page, where ship movements were formerly listed, was blank. Empey and his staff continued to gather up the forbidden news of ships that touched at San Francisco each day. Then the list was set, one page proof was pulled, and locked in the office safe...
Striving to keep the great weight of fact and action quick, supple and personal, the film's creators hit on a few bold devices. The boldest: substituting for the customary bald-faced narrative prose some passages in blank verse written by Private Harry Brown-and for the customary sports announcer's voice, a far more intelligent Voice of History. Though the verse is generally middling and the BBC-accented Voice of History is a trifle pallid, the innovation is as welcome as it is startling...
...they are dirty little blank blanks...
...wooden leg, leaning on his cane and clutching at the ship's ropes as he pulled himself up the stairway. The second was the dour, solemn-faced Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Yoshijiro Umezu-his chest covered with ribbons and hung with gold braid, his eyes blank and unseeing...
...Shigemitsu, doffing his silk hat and peeling a yellow glove from his right hand, limped forward to sign the document and was assisted to a chair. With a blank, expressionless face he composed himself and signed. Umezu followed. He slowly drew off his white gloves and, without sitting, bent his stocky body forward and affixed the authority of the Japanese Army to the acknowledgment of total defeat...