Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jesse Neal as officers fitted a black hood over his head, a 2-in., heart-shaped black target to his white shirt. "I am innocent; I have no malice against anyone," were Don Jesse Neal's last words as five .30-.30 rifles (one loaded with a blank cartridge) poked through five holes in a burlap screen 25 ft. away. "Ready!" said the officer in charge to his men as the sun edged red above the rugged Wasatch mountains; then, seconds later, softly, so that the man in the chair would not hear him, "Fire...
Anonymous Prussian. Mere mention of the name Gehlen is enough to make U.S. intelligence chiefs in Germany clam up and try to look blank. For years both Washington and Bonn refused to confirm that the organization existed. But since the Communists themselves took to blaming "Gehlen agents" for acts of sabotage throughout Eastern Europe, enough facts have leaked out to suggest that Büro Gehlen not only exists, but that it may be one of the best intelligence networks in the business...
...glowing adjectives than they often do in the course of a whole theatrical season. Objects of their eloquence: Sir Laurence Olivier's Macbeth at Stratford-on-Avon (scheduled to remain in the Stratford Festival repertory until season's end on Nov. 26) and Orson Welles's blank-verse adaptation of Moby Dick at London's Duke of York's Theater...
...century," the play opens as a rehearsal of King Lear, then transforms itself into a rehearsal of Moby Dick. Wearing a false nose, and playing variously a theater manager, a New England preacher and Captain Ahab, spotlighted Actor Welles storms up and down the shadowy stage spewing and roaring blank verse, fights Ahab's final battle with the whale while standing on a table that protrudes into the center aisle, driving his imaginary harpoon into the audience...
...century period piece. She was none other than Alice B. Toklas, 79, longtime companion of Poetess Gertrude ("A rose is a rose is a rose") Stein. She soon headed for the famed portrait of Literary Lioness Stein that Picasso painted in 1906, gazed at it with a touch of blank sadness, moved on. Said Critic Toklas: "The show is excellent but rather short on blue-and-rose-period works...