Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moulmein fell. Sweat-wet, bare-backed British artillerymen fired point-blank into the advancing Japanese, piled them in shredded heaps. U.S. volunteer pilots strafed them. British bayonets stabbed them. Riflemen and machine-gunners tore their advancing ranks on the open flats before the city. But the Japs came on. From Moulmein they drove the outnumbered, outgunned British across the broad Salween River. There, behind the river barrier, the British took their stand between the Japanese and the prize they were fighting for: mastery of strategic Rangoon, of the Burma Road to China, of the invasion road to India...
...stood up and stretched. It was all over, for another four months. No more last minute frenzies. No more sleeping between three and eight a.m. No more sessions in a bleak lecture hall with a blank-lined page in front of him, and a great blank void in his mind. It was a relief to finish any exam, but after this last one he could really afford to look ahead. He drew himself a luxuriant picture of days doing nothing, lingering, over breakfast, lazing through the morning, coffee and magazines in the common room after lunch and again after dinner...
...years ago Edmonds had to give up smoking because of incipient cancer. Now he drinks water copiously to alibi those constant work-stoppages that most writers find so necessary when facing a piece of blank paper. At such times Edmonds' three-year-old daughter often stands outside his forbidden door and sighs: "My daddy is working in there." With a pang of conscience he takes his feet off the desk, begins hammering his typewriter like Young Ames on the make...
...Note: that Japs closed to 4,700 yards before 5-and 3-inch guns opened up at point-blank range...
...rebellious Chamber of Deputies, and eighty-five per cent of the people, Castillo is riding for a fall. Since the last week in December the country has been in a state of siege. A severe censorship has hit not only the newspapers, which have several times appeared with blank editorial pages, but also the foreign correspondents and press services. The Administration has set the stage for some sort of violence, and the Rio conference may raise the curtain. Pressure, exerted not directly by the United States, but by the community of Pan American nations, could turn the tide for some...