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Word: blanking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus after six weeks of buildup, Marshal Rokossovsky (of Polish descent), who almost reached Warsaw in August, began to close in. The famed Russian artillery, massed on the east bank of the Vistula, began pounding the Germans on the 135-ft. bluff in Warsaw-point blank, 500 yards across the river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERM ANY. (East): Red Dawn Over Warsaw | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

Despite the South's notorious anti-Catholic bias, Evidence speakers say that Southerners are invariably polite. In the North, Evidence speakers meet with much blank indifference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics on Soapboxes | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

...Point-blank!" he said, "pointblank, sir. We had to get out the best way we could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: DUSK IN THE RHONE VALLEY | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

Carte Blanche. In Fort Ann, N.Y., Henry Holly mailed back to the U.S. Treasury a signed, blank check, issued to him as disability payment for service in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 28, 1944 | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...foot soldiers fought across the tiny, cut-up fields, over and down the tough, earth-mound Norman hedges, along the ditches and sunken roads. They fought with hand grenades, shot each other point-blank with rifles, cut each other's throats with bayonets. The Americans, British and Canadians attacked with auto-rifles, Tommy guns. The Nazis fought back with their quick-firing Schmeisser "burp-guns" and sowed mean little "Bouncing Betty" mines that spring up waist high and burst in a shower of steel scrap when a soldier steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF FRANCE: War and Weather | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

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