Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They must learn to catch, kill, dress, cook their own meat. They must know how to stalk, unseen, in woods, fields, mountains. If a man is spotted on his first stalking practice, he is orally warned. On the second, a blank round is fired at him. On the third, a live bullet spats close by him. Said a onetime Commando officer now on duty in the U.S.: "It certainly teaches people quickly...
...exacting, work of restoring masterpieces as nearly as possible to their original condition. Where the original work of the artist has been painted over, these reworkings are detected by X-ray, ultraviolet, and infra-red rays in Alan Burrough's Department of X-Ray and are removed and the blank spaces carefully filled in to resemble the original. Actual paint, however, is never retouched or covered with new work. Perhaps the most ticklish job of this type was done in 1923, although not by the Fogg technical department, on a Fogg picture now exhibited in a second-floor gallery. Purchased...
...This mouthy, pretentious, calculating little climber . . . this degraded knave . . . this glib, vulgar, slippery little jackleg . . . that posturing sometime reformer . . . the twenty-two goats and monkeys who composed the grand jury . . . this blank-brained menagerie, bamboozled by transparent obfuscations ... the gang of sneaking child-cheaters . . . these two low, skulking rogues . . . and the rest of the besotted judicial jackals . . . illiterate imbeciles . . . lick-spittle timeservers and chore-boys . . . aromatically crooked as a skunk's hind leg. . . . The corruption of these abject poltroons is merely one example of the corruption which infects our entire judicial system . . . these esurient, self-seeking herding jerks...
...application blank-a new attempt at corruption-went last week to the schoolteachers of Norway, inviting them to sign up with the Quisling Teachers Union, or Laerersamband. The Laerersamband has had everything but members. The new blanks were coaxers. "Providing political propaganda or similar work in conflict with my conscience is not prescribed." they read, "I may be regarded as a member. . . ." This was ingratiating, but Norway's teachers were unimpressed...
Into Washington last week strode a big, pink, chub-cheeked Michigan Swede -Wendell Lund, of Escanaba -6 ft. 1 in., 200 lb., 36, and unknown. His new boss, WPB Chief Donald Nelson, had to be introduced to him. Washington turned a blank face. But none of this fazed Mr. Lund. He had arrived to take over the Labor Production Division of the War Production Board, to become one of the nine people who will mobilize U.S. manpower for total...