Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hound on occasion, but this was not one of them. While witnesses came forth to say that politicians bought the vote of flophouse residents for 25?, 50? or a shot of liquor, cynical Chicagoans watched with only half an eye. Too many times they had seen that covert drawn blank...
...speedy, 679-ton torpedo boats, charging in close to loose a shoal of their tin fish. Heeling over hard, the Ajax spurted forward out of their path, opened up with her 6-inch guns. Into the hull of one Italian smashed the first salvo, scarcely dispersed at the point-blank range. But the other attackers maneuvered their small guns into play, began pumping 3.9-inch shells back at the Ajax. With an orange-colored flash, an Italian shell plowed through an unarmored compartment forward on the Ajax. Next minute, a series of blasts roared from a second torpedo boat...
...vacation, away on business, or otherwise too far from home to register in their own precincts, will not have to go home to register: they must find a nearby registration place, fill out the prescribed blank, which will be mailed to their home towns. Draft-age travelers on trains and airplanes Oct. 16 will have to interrupt their journeys...
...vital part of cinematic and dramatic production; it is not less essential than the acting, for it integrates and gives point to a work of art. The great climax, "Give me some lights! Away!," in Hamlet, simply cannot be staged effectively without music. There are too many blank spaces between spoken words to keep up the necessary amount of high tension for the necessary length of time. And if this is true of one of the greatest of plays, how much more so of the run-of-the-mill potboiler featured in the movie-house...
...inside a tank or behind an airplane engine. Trails ideal for the soft pads of camel feet are too soft for the treads of caterpillars. Mirages, the blistering wind called ghibli, sand blizzards, lack of cover, germs and salt in wells-all constitute hazards often more dangerous than point-blank enemy...