Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wasp to put her out of her misery. The flagship took aboard some of the Wasp's surviving pilots. Later, in the bedroom of one of the ship's officers, one of the older pilots stood in front of a grey locker and talked with an absolutely blank expression. He addressed one of his fellow pilots. "Well, Murphy," he said, "it's a little hard for us to realize yet. All those fellows over there. ... I came in from my search and didn't see the task force, so I thought the whole force must have...
...pointing to the infantrymen. A tank commander turned, saw the danger. He slammed down the cover of his turret. The tank spun around on its treads and a section of Bailey's fence went out. Half a dozen other tanks followed, charging through the grass with bursts of blank cartridges. It was over in a minute. An umpire pointed to the infantry: "They finished you off and you're all dead, you understand...
...grasped it and turned back the cover. It just couldn't be true. There, in the familiar hand was scrawled "unsatisfactory." In a minute he was up on the front steps of the library building, his mind still an utter blank. Then a feeling of rebellion began to swell up within him. "What do those damn college girls know about grading business reports?" he roared...
...White House correspondents, their professional sensibilities hurt, felt they had been locked out for no good reason. Given a lecture (but refused any reason for it) instead of an explanation, they felt doubly wronged. There was a moment of blank, hurt silence. A White House aide tried to break the tension with a wisecrack. The tension was not broken...
Another submarine attacked them. They escaped, paddled on across the blank sea. A week went by and rations dwindled. It rained and they replenished their water supply. More than two weeks passed. Then, suddenly, a patrol plane appeared in the burning blue sky, flew over them and dropped some food. They fished it out of the ocean, confident now that they would soon be rescued...