Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors finally diagnosed the case as visual agnosia, an extremely rare disorder whose victims cannot recall images to compare with what they currently see. But J.S. suffered from a highly specialized kind-a complete blank for faces, or "pro-sopagnosia." Said Dr. Donald Macrae: "We have nothing exactly like it in world literature...
...qualified men can be drawn up, and the executive or the legislature required to choose from that list. After being appointed, judges would run for election only against their records on the bench, i.e., no other candidates would appear on the ballots, which would be simply phrased: "Shall Judge Blank be retained in office?" This system has been recommended by the American Bar Association, but so far almost all the states have ignored...
Died. Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, 65, prolific writer of magazine stories and some 20 mystery novels (Lady Killer, The Innocent Mrs. Duff, The Blank Wall}, known to whodunit fans as one of the earliest (since 1929) and most skillful practitioners of the novel of psychological suspense; after long illness; in The Bronx...
...that many a viewer suspected trickery. One afternoon a fur-coated lady exclaimed: "I can't believe that this child has produced all these paintings without someone else's guidance." A messenger was sent to fetch a set of brushes, a dozen tubes of paint and a blank canvas. While the fascinated gallerygoers watched, young Thierry went to work, within two hours completed another exquisite still life...
...Land. In Cambridge, Ill., Farmer M. C. Samuelson complained to the Henry County state's attorney that after he left a signed blank check with his order for a pound of butter, Milkman Robert Fowler picked up the check, blithely made it out to himself...