Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artist at work, but he himself no longer has the time or spirit to paint. Cognac consoles him with the illusion of creativity, and girls with the illusion of vitality. After that, Jonas' decline is swift, sure and touching. Dying, he scribbles one word on a blank canvas, but no one can be sure "whether it should be read solitary or solidary" (i.e., at one with society). Moral: wooing the Muse is not half so important, or difficult, as staying married...
...last July, told the story. Last week leftist Radical Frondizi pulled approximately 4,000,000 ballots with Perón's backing. His top opponent, moderate Radical Ricardo Balbin, got 2,500,000. Last July, when Perón's disciples cast more than 2,000,000 blank protest ballots, Balbin beat Frondizi...
...handed Argentina to Frondizi through necessity rather than choice. If the dictator had let his blank-vote order stand, it would have opened the door to odious comparisons between the impressive total he chalked up in July and an almost certainly less impressive total last week. He could not back Balbin, who was likely to carry on the anti-Perón policies of Provisional President Pedro Aramburu. Frondizi, who openly wooed Peronista votes, was the only possible choice...
...victory, Frondizi owed a potentially embarrassing debt to ousted Dictator Juan Perón. In constituent assembly elections last July, Perón ordered his last-ditch followers to vote blank, and they piled up 2,000,000 void ballots. Two weeks ago Perón, now an exile in the Dominican Republic, changed tactics and passed the word to vote for Frondizi. The only apparent reason was that Frondizi had been outspoken in criticism of the provisional government that booted Peron out in 1955. But Perón's move clearly changed the course of the campaign...
Prebirth information begins with a detailed form in which the mother can describe her pregnancy, including such complications as toxemia and German measles. There are blanks for a description of labor, which should show whether the child, if handicapped in any way, might have been injured at birth. Blood type and Rh status are recorded for father and mother as well as baby. There is a three-page blank for details of baby's first medical examination after leaving the hospital, to be filled in by the doctor and pasted in the book...