Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the news bulletins ceased to come, people felt a little lost. For nine-and twelve-hour periods in Oregon and Washington, various but generally shorter spells in California, nothing at all could be tuned in on many sets during daytime but a blank buzz. This tribulation was imposed by order of the coastal Interceptor Commands. Reason: carrier-based enemy planes could have flown in above the weather, found military objectives by triangulating on radio broadcasts from commercial stations...
Slip. In Idabel, Okla., a court clerk reading a verdict condemning a man to death in the electric chair was interrupted by cries from the jury box. The jurors had signed the wrong verdict blank; they meant 25 years for manslaughter...
...tanks, flying their proud little regimental pennants, crisscross and interweave with the darker Nazi vehicles, each marked with great white crosses. Some get so close that cannons are fired over open sights. Tanks suddenly buckle into twisted masses and leap clear off the ground under the impact of point-blank hits. Shells crash in all directions; friend sometimes hits friend...
...back." National discussion today revolves about the efficacy of our program from a completely starry-eyed point of view, failing to account for either the immediate strategical problem of the final world peace problem. This sort of thinking gives me the feeling that we're butting a blank wall, making our strength and resolution seem pathetic...
Apparently the British released torpedoes at point-blank range and followed up with gunfire. Somehow in the darkness, with radio locators or searchlights, they spotted every ship in the convoy. They sank nine and left the tenth, a tanker, blazing fiercely. For good measure they sent down (by Italian admission) two enemy destroyers. Presumably the Italian cruisers, fearful that a British battleship was near by, turned tail and fled. The entire British squadron got back to Malta unscathed...