Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...navigator in charge of flights between hangar and ramp, a hot pilot to supervise hot drinks, a cold pilot for cold drinks ("Sir, fuel injection is on the ramp"), and a crew chief to stack the dishes. When a cadet is ready to leave, he says: "New Cadet Blank reports in No. i take-off position. Am I clear?" The ramp commander, using control-tower jargon, can either "hold" him or demand: "What are you, Mister?" (to which the cadet must say: "Sir, I am an F-94C"), or he can let him go: "You are clear to roll...
...Chancellor Konrad Adenauer complained not long ago. But having accepted the necessity, Adenauer decided to get on with it, and to have something started before Geneva could undo it. In his haste, Chancellor Adenauer, a democrat at heart but sometimes an autocrat in practice, had demanded a blank check from the Bundestag (TIME, July 11). Last week the Bundestag gave the chancellor a salutary lesson...
Adenauer's Defense Minister Theodor Blank tried to reassure the Bundestag by saying that he shared all its fears: "The army must not be a state within a state. Parliamentary control must be made stronger than was formerly the case in Germany." Not one of these limitations, objected the opposition, was spelled out in the bill. And while the Bundestag might trust Adenauer, it did not trust the old army elite, and did not want an army born before the limitations on its officers' responsibilities were well understood in advance...
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, no militarist, heard himself accused in Bonn last week of soliciting "a blank check for a pact between militarism and bureaucracy." The words were those of Opposition Leader Erich Ollenhauer, but they reflected the mood of the entire Bundestag...
...government through the current parliamentary session without any serious recurrence of last year's fatigue. "He's as perky as he ever was," observed one government official. "He's enjoying his job too much to give it up." A top Liberal who asked him point-blank about his political plans last week reported afterward that St. Laurent said "definitely, with no ifs or buts [that he] will run in the next election," and serve as Prime Minister "as long as his health stands...