Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chancellor got back to his desk after seven weeks' confinement, the Bonn government took a major step toward meeting his wishes. A new five-member Supreme Military Council was formed to assume direct operational command over West German armed forces, subject to policy directives of Civilian Theodor Blank's Defense Ministry. Chairman of the council and, in effect, postwar West Germany's chief of staff will be Lieut. General Adolf Heusinger. 58. a small (5 ft. 6 in.), sandy-haired army veteran who began his career as a cadet in World War 1, rose to be Wehrmacht...
...senior complained last night that he and his roommate, another senior, applied for Yale seats together, both using Dartmouth forms. His roommate received two seats high up on the fifty for $7 when his blank successfully got by the distributor. He was not so lucky, and had to pay $10 for two seats only six rows up from the field and near the goal line...
...mystical nor didactic. Instead, after the fashion of all true high-comedy writing, something simply becomes the more touching for having seemed brittle, the more penetrating for having seemed fagade-like. The paper chase of upper-class antics and insolences does lead to the human heart; among so many blank-cartridged witticisms there are one or two real bullets...
Sometimes pupils draw a blank at particular sounds. But the teaching process goes on every minute of the day. Once a teacher heard a little boy crying "eeeeee" while at play, immediately rushed out to make him repeat the sound again and again. Up until that moment, the boy had never been able to pronounce any word with the "ee" sound...
...United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization was teaching atheism, communism, and world government. Five months has, however, evidently brought the Legion back to its battle stations, for instead of accepting the committee's report, the annual convention last week began once again to fire away with its blank charges...