Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lines scratched out by Ray's palette knife. Believing that "the artist, like physicists, must use the abstract to get to the concrete," Ray's next two portraits of Suzuki were abstractions of opposing lines. No. 7 stopped most viewers in their tracks. It was a startling blank canvas, washed in with cloudy browns. But Taoist Lecturer Dr. C. Y. Chang, on hand for the opening, recognized it immediately as "TAO, the Unconscious Self...
...Vietnamese army reinforcements to relieve a couple of hardpressed Vietnamese garrisons near by. Thundering to the scene in trucks, the reinforcements were ambushed along the Boulevard Gallieni by well-placed Binh Xuyen machine gunners, but the Vietnamese government troops piled out, unlimbered a 37-mm. fieldpiece, battered point-blank at the Binh Xuyen, and then charged...
...Communist intent is based on an observable military buildup and on corroborating intelligence from top-secret sources. On the China mainland facing Quemoy, the Reds are moving into revetted positions heavy artillery of 155 mm. and up. There are some 250 observable positions along a semicircle at point-blank ranges of from 2½ to five miles. At Foochow, the jump-off point for a Matsu invasion, the buildup is also apparent...
...Incoming freshmen who are familiar with Harvard through family or school background are usually aware of this Dean's Office idiosyncrasy. Thus they fill up the better dorms, while the uninitiated freshmen suffer. Fortunately this problem is easily solved. The Dean's Office need only state on its rooming blank that it will not honor any requests for specific dormitories...
...London, the new commercial TV network scheduled to go on the air in September announced that it would cooperate with the BBC in leaving British TV screens blank from 6 to 7 every evening. Purpose: to enable parents to tear moppets away from TV sets, feed them and put them to bed before the night's programs begin...