Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was a moment of profound silence, then a roll of thunderous applause. Chairman Mundt, who had always curbed such outbreaks, let the applause run its course as McCarthy stared in blank surprise. When the uproar had subsided, Joe Welch, face drained white, rose from the committee table, silently walked past McCarthy and out into a corridor where he stood alone, dabbing at his eyes with a handkerchief...
Actress McCambridge. a talented player with long experience in radio and TV (she won a supporting-actress Oscar in All the King's Men), achieves a believable, blank-mask expression of insanity. The other performers seem bewildered most of the time by the direction of Nicholas Ray (Knock on Any Door, Flying Leathernecks), who works with the misguided brilliance of a myopic Pygmalion. Almost every separate part of the picture comes to life in one way or another, but none quite fits into the whole. At one moment a character is declaiming like a choragus; at the next...
...conducting some 4,000 interviews a year is being dropped, Director of Admissions Lewis B. Ward said last night, because of its doubtful value in judging candidates and its expense. Omission of the interviews, he said, will give more weight in determining admission to the candidate's application blank, his academic record, and recommendations from his employer or college faculty...
...Talker. In Portland, Ore., Donald Blank held up Service Station Attendant Hugo Nelson, lost his pistol in a scuffle, was arrested while he tried to talk Nelson into giving it back...
There were still, however, some blank spaces in the Khokhlov case. Few competent observers, for instance, could bring themselves to believe that a guilty conscience was his only reason for defecting. Presumably, his own boss in the MVD had been purged along with Beria, which might have provided a further reason. Then there was the still unanswered question of what would now happen-or had already happened -to his wife Yanina in Moscow. Khokhlov himself seemed to have a strange faith in what U.S. moral pressure might do to save her. "I came here," said Nikolai Khokhlov to the American...