Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blank Look. Into the rest of his 27-minute conference, Ike jammed an assortment of news. Returning briefly to the problem of U.S. military defenses, he said that it was "absolutely essential" that the nation "take its own particular position in the world" and create a military establishment "suited to its own requirements." He advocated "bona fide" U.S. membership in the U.N.-affiliated International Labor Organization. Turned to partisan politics by a reporter's question, he dismissed, with a shrug and a grimace, a suggestion that the resounding defeat of Governor Allan Shivers in the recent Democratic delegate battles...
...with their advisers and tutors, claim the officials. On the incorrect assumption that bureaucrats want what they ask for, students frequently produce the study card but neglect the planning and discussion. Tutors aid the subversion of the card's aim by signing whatever tutees push at them, sometimes even blank study cards, without questions...
...Alcoa Hour made history by discovering a new way of treating the classic TV western story-Writer Alvin Sapinsley put it in blank verse. Even more surprising: it worked. Franchot Tone, Lee Grant and Christopher Plummer played the three tragic figures who end as corpses on a dusty street, while Boris Karloff leaned confidentially into the camera as a one-man Greek chorus to give poetic expression to the eternal verities of life, death, and man's irreparable foolishness...
...flesh color. How risque! But for an even more sensational little tidbit, just you listen to this. I personally spoke to Miss Kelly's father, a man who rose from bricklayer to head of a construction company that is worth millions, just millions. Now I asked him point blank whether he thought that Rainier was just a mite bit greasy. Mr. Kelly just scratched his head for a moment, his arms, by the way, are powerful from years of rowing and bricklaying, and said, "He is not greasy. He is simply smooth...
Tremendous Experience. The story is compellingly told in terms of Doris L., a young woman admitted to California's Metropolitan State Hospital as a catatonic. Mute, withdrawn, her eyes blank and disregarding of the world, Doris nevertheless had a great natural dignity, an almost glacial repose that seemed invulnerable to any appeal. For 2% months a concealed camera recorded her psychiatric sessions with Dr. Louis Cholden. His slow struggle to reach a human being submerged in indifference had in it all the wire-thin inten sity of great drama. When Doris finally smiled and spoke her first word ("pretty...