Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ahead of you, sonny boy," the guard answered blank faced...
Like almost no other undergraduate sport, Harvard basketball brings a blank and a scowl to the faces of grads recalling their sporting years in college. Even the undergraduate mind has become conditioned to expect defeat and disappointment...
Applicants to the Business School are chosen on three main criteria: college record; personal interviews, preferably two with members of the Admissions Board; and replies given to questions in the six-page admission application blank...
...dealer from Indianapolis wired his direct pitch, making traditional use of the salesman's superlative: 'I herewith ask you to buy America's greatest car for value, power, economy and styling-a 1954 Chevrolet. Advise.' "A Washington, D.C. dealer resorted to two pages of blank verse and enclosed a key to a new Studebaker sedan for the Secretary and Mrs. Weeks. A young local salesman wrote that he had been selling cars for only a year and added, 'If I may have this opportunity to give you a demonstration, I will strive to live...
...hero is a peddler-limner named Jude. Jude spends his winters painting in the figures of men and women on canvases but leaving the faces blank. When spring comes, he saddles his cart, piles in the canvases and hits up the New England towns for people who will pay $3 to $5 to have the blank spots filled in with their "likenesses." Rainbow on the Road covers one season's adventures on Jude's circuit as told in flashback by a 14-year-old boy who goes with...