Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Salvo after salvo of blank shots sounded from the huge tanks and tractor-drawn howitzers clanking over ancient Peking's streets. Thousands of marching troops shouted "Liberate Formosa!" Jets and bombers speckled the sky. White "peace" doves fluttered above the heads of half a million workers, who held high huge portraits of Mao Tse-tung, Malenkov, Lenin, Stalin, Marx, Engels...
...McCarthy a solid runway for his take-off as a Communist fighter in 1950. They grant that the furor caused by McCarthy did help to bring needed attention to the problem of Communist infiltration. But at about that point, the credit side of their McCarthy ledger begins to go blank...
...main lines of his program, and in his demand for full power, Mendès-France would not yield a centimeter. "The vote will be a question of confidence," he told the National Assembly, and in the prevailing atmosphere he was all but sure of getting his economic blank check...
...first appeared in 1951 in a French literary magazine [the Revue de Paris] and was an instant success . . . Madame de Vilmorin claims that she wrote it at high speed, and did not even pause to give her heroine a name: Paris society amused itself trying to fill in the blank. Max Ophuls has made what TIME correctly calls a film classic out of a short story that is already a classic...
...that a lord is a lord first. They have no difficulty in ignoring the fact that Lord Trimingham is, in fact, not only a human being but a tragic one. He has returned from the South African war with a sickle-shaped scar across his face, a "down-weeping, blank eye," a twisted mouth that distorts his whole face, and (Author Hartley hints) some internal wound that has left him a man in appearance only. "But you mustn't say [you are sorry] to him, or to Marian either," the younger son of the house tells Leo, his house...