Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...banana truck" to the remotest outposts on the island of Oahu. It will soon tour the outlying islands. Meanwhile Evans (who has done no acting) has in rehearsal such Broadway hits as Boy Meets Girl and My Sister Eileen; eventually he may dish up a little Shakespeare. He thinks blank-verse tragedy will be such a novelty for soldiers that they will like it. To back up his hunch, he points to three wow performances of Mac beth at Fort George G. Meade, last year...
Though the customary honors due to Governor, Saltonstall a cannon salute of 19 shots, had to be foregone because there were no available blank gun shells, the review of the Harvard R.O.T.C. on Wednesday before a board of government inspectors and sundry military and civilian officials in the Stadium was considered a first-rate exhibition, pending, of course, the little, War Department rating which will come back some time soon as "Excellent, satisfactory, or unsatisfactory...
...slumped in the barber chair and looked into the big mirror. A blank, "How'd you like it, sir? Short? Medium? Long?--The barber's cagerly flat voice jarred him out of the void...
Sample episode: the time is Oct. 23, 1942. The place is a stretch of desert before El Alamein. Two armies face each other which for two months have been recreating themselves in manpower and in material. The last preparations for combat intensify, and grow quiet. In blank black, a calm voice speaks: At Zero-minus-thirty the barrage begins. At the same moment the sappers will move for ward. . . . At 10 o'clock the infantry will advance. In quiet and darkness a single file of helmeted sappers goes up the line; next, bayonet-bearing infantry, slowly, then faster. These...
Three hours had passed. John Lewis stepped off the witness chair, gathered together his entourage, steamed majestically from the committee room. The echoes of his blank prose died: the stage emptied. The great tragedian, whom no vegetable-throwing gallery has ever been able to silence, had played another scene...