Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pillared Pharaonic Hall a group of young men saluted respectfully. The Premier paused to shake hands. Suddenly a youth in a black shirt and red tie whipped out a pistol, fired point blank at Maher Pasha. The Premier dropped. Tears ran down his cheeks. Said he: "I'm finished." Thus death, as it must to all men, came last week to Ahmed Maher Pasha...
...year-old buddy, Arthur Davidowicz, did not vibrate so alarmingly. He looked wistfully blank at times, at times just old and beaten. "I wish the policeman would've shot me," he said, "I'd of been better...
...20th Century-Fox) is the excitingly horrid story of a large, bewildered composer named George Harvey Bone (Laird Cregar) who overworks himself into fits of amnesia. A Scotland Yard doctor (George Sanders), who is a pioneer in criminal insanity (the year is 1903), helps Bone realize that during these blank spells he may very possibly be a murderer. Bone is advised to relax. He tries to relax with a deadly poisonous music-hall beauty named Netta (Linda Darnell). When she contemptuously uses his infatuation as a means to her own evil ends, he proves the doctor was right, using Netta...
...them unbelievably boyish, endlessly rehearsing their deck and air routines, or loafing in the sunlight as their floating town lounges through the improbable colors of the Gulf Stream and edges her way through the Panama Canal. While they loaf, they wonder. Their destination is still as dead a blank to them as their experience of combat. Then, well out in the Pacific, in some rough, wonderful shots, they meet a tanker and refuel, and know at least that their job is to be long and businesslike...
...NROTC hockey squad ran up a 3 to 2 victory over the unofficial Harvard civilian team Wednesday morning at the Boston Skating Club. In the first of two 25-minute periods the Navy scored two goals. The NROTC came through with one more in the second half, threatening to blank the civilians, but in the last two minutes of play Bill Ayres put two shots past the Navy goalie...