Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students don't have any way to relieve themselves of the strain around here, their minds go blank," Saxe continued...
Comes the Revolution. Author Liu approached Chinese Communism with an open but not a blank mind. He found that its pose was "liberation" but its practice was tyranny. The power that runs through his book is the high moral voltage an honest man always generates when he gives a straight account of a crooked thing...
...Sinuiji at the Yalu. He moved southwest of Pusan. There, in 1948, a gang of South Korean Communists went after him. Hiding in his house, he listened helplessly as the rioters beat his wife for refusing to tell where he was. They beat her until her eyes grew blank, until she could remember nothing but would thenceforth sit all the day staring...
...women & children into the church. A large smoke bomb was exploded inside the church and, as the women & children panicked, the SS men mowed them down with machine guns. The explosion of the smoke bomb was the signal for the soldiers stationed outside the barns to fire point blank into the massed groups of men. The soldiers then walked in among the fallen bodies, firing with their pistols on any that seemed alive. They piled hay and bedding over the bodies and burned them. Systematically they set fire to every house in Oradour. Mounting their trucks and tanks, they moved...
...while the disease detectives seemed to be up against a blank wall. After almost a month, they got a break. The owner of a house near the camp asked a neighbor casually: "Wasn't it too bad about the malaria at the camp?" "Yes," was the answer, "but he's all right now." "He?" "Yes-my son. He got malaria in Korea and had a relapse while he was visiting up here." As soon as this backyard chitchat was reported to Dr. Fritz, the puzzle was solved. The marine veteran of Korea got medical care, and spread...