Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They had gathered to heckle a speech by Theodor Blank-the man who is scheduled to be Defense Minister when West Germany gets an army-and they succeeded. Blank finally retreated behind a police guard, his speech undelivered. As he did so, a wineglass flew through the air and shattered on Blank's face...
Adenauer had hand-picked Theodor Blank to organize Germany's new army precisely to avoid the traditional working-class hostility to the army. No heel-clicking, stiff-backed militarist, but an ex-union official who still speaks in the pawky idiom of the Ruhr workman...
...Blank says proudly: "I am working class." But last week Germany's Socialist Party and the powerful West German Trade Unions Federation would have none of Blank or his army. Hundreds of Protestant ministers joined in petitions against rearmament...
...efforts, however, have run into a blank wall. "I just can't understand it," Fischer complains. The National Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation even wrote a letter for me, and yet everything has been ignored...
...Ancient Arctic. The archaeology of the Arctic, until recently, has been almost a blank. But as hardy diggers continued to learn more about the barren lands, earlier Arctic peoples are coming to light. They are quite different from the Eskimos, and they extend many thousands of years into prehistory...