Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resignation as Foreign Minister (a job he has combined with the Chancellorship for four years), and nominated two key new ministers: ¶To be Foreign Minister: his friend, Heinrich von Brentano (see box). ¶To be Minister for Defense: small (5 ft. 4 in.) Trade Unionist Theodor Blank, 49, since 1950 head of a shadow defense ministry called "Bureau Blank," which is set up in a dingy brick building in a Bonn back street. In 1933, Union Organizer Blank chose unemployment rather than the Nazi Arbeitsfront. When war came he joined the Wehrmacht as a private, finished...
...there are others, too, who fear a Blank check. They protested that Adenauer's three-paragraph emergency bill set precedents without creating safeguards. By a unanimous vote, the Bundesrat (where Adenauer usually has his way) sent his bill back with a demand for clarification of policy...
...have slowly had their effect. Along with the much-discussed scars of conformity and fear, introspection caused by the investigations has probably also brought a generally saner approach to the whole problem of academic freedom. No longer is the typical case necessarily that of the professor who refused point-blank to testify to a committee. Faculty people have learned that silence or impudence before investigators is usually more inimical to their own cause than forthright, honest testimony. The resolution, or at least simplification, of some issues, however, has left at least one problem more isolated and more important than ever...
...years and $10 million later, the repair work is almost finished, and Nov. 5 has been announced as the opening date. All winter, the ticket stampede was on: a total of 7,000 applications arrived for the 1,658 seats. From the U.S. came pleas backed by blank checks; others offered as much as $500 for one ticket. The problem of choosing the fortunate first-nighters became an affair of state. The Cabinet held special sessions. Finally, the question was settled in a fine, Habsburg-style compromise : the government decreed three "first nights." The first will be Don Giovanni, actually...
...Cover (Paramount) is Jimmy Cagney's 50th. movie, and he proves his durability in the very first reel by walking into a point-blank ambush and emerging with nothing more than a scraped forehead. Since the ambush was a mistake, the chastened townsfolk make Cagney their new sheriff, and he promotes his sidekick (John Derek), who was crippled by the posse, to be deputy. But Derek is the kind of fellow who nurses a grudge-first he helps Badman Ernest Borgnine to escape, then he betrays Cagney, shoots him in the back and leaves him to drown...