Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...award had the jury stopped: an $800 prize donated by Rome's Obelisco Gallery for the "most nonconformist" work. After surveying the field (including a blank, punctured canvas and an 18-in.-square sheet of rusted metal punctured by 3-in. nails on which were impaled two pingpong balls), the international jury gave up, decided that the task of picking only one was impossible...
...nervous eye on the teleprinters as messages clacked in from U.S. outposts in the tense Middle East. State was braced for the possibility that Russia's Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov (see FOREIGN NEWS) would offer to sell Egypt arms, would offer Egypt a $1.3 billion loan-or a blank check-to build the Aswan High Dam, that Egypt's Premier Nasser would find it hard to turn down such easy and astronomical money (roughly half of Egypt's gross national product). State was concerned likewise that neighboring Israel might be fanning up a new "get tough" policy...
Homework. In Hemet, Calif., a schoolboy dropped into a stationery store, browsed around, sheepishly asked the clerk: "Have you got any blank report cards...
...that results in this?" He had hardly finished speaking when violence broke out again, this time in the pleasant little town of Kalka, among the mountain foothills of Simla. There, police, frightened and outnumbered by an attacking mob of 1,500 people armed with stones and bottles, fired point-blank into the crowd. The toll: five dead, a score critically injured...
...right, men," he said. "We are about to meet the head of state of a foreign power, a man that might challenge you on any subject. Put yourself in my place. You are a senior representative of the U.S. Government. What would you do?" The officers looked blank. Snapped Burke: "Think. Just think. And don't stop thinking." The U.S. Navy still has a long way to go in its revolution, but under Arleigh Burke's driving insistent leadership, it is thinking as never before. For years Navy theory dragged in the wake of advancing technology...