Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...camera and the AD's TV screen picked up the bridge. The control man in the AD put the robot into a screaming dive, kept his aiming crosshairs on the bridge as he watched it grow bigger & bigger on his TV screen. When the screen went blank, the control man knew that the robot and its camera, the bomb and the bridge had all blown up together...
...Gilbert once trapped the editor of Punch with a bland question: Were many jokes sent in? "Hundreds." said the editor. "Then," snapped Gilbert, "why don't you print some of them?" Like some Englishmen, Americans have long looked on Punch's quiet brand of British fun with blank amazement. But since the war, Punch has been trying to broaden its audience (TIME, June 2, 1947). Now, to prove that even U.S. readers can laugh at today's Punch (circ. 136,537), its editors have authorized a collection of The Best Cartoons from Punch (Simon & Schuster...
...teenagers, bullied by newsboys, insulted by waitresses, and refused a loan by snooty bank clerks. But suddenly the god Jupiter comes down and offers Poindexter some advice. "Be wisely selfish," says Jupiter, "catch your flies with sugar." So Poindexter suppresses his natural reactions to various people, fixes a blank grin of confidence on his face, and composes adulatory remarks to smother everyone with. He gets what he wants from others by feigning interest in their problems and remaining inwardly aloof and calculating. The film teaches that in this way we can all "cash in at the bank of human relations...
...play football as a sophomore in high school, then quit to begin a scrabble of hard odd jobs-dishwasher, ditchdigger, factory candy-mixer, snow-remover, beer-deliverer's helper. He spent three years in the Army (partly ferrying supplies from England to Normandy), and returned to the old blank round. Rocky had boxed a bit in the Army; after his return he did some amateur boxing for fun-and broke his thumb. That small misfortune made him. "It cost money to fix the thumb," he recalls, "so I thought I might as well earn some fighting." His first professional...
What Is It? Theoretically, the Congress is the "supreme organ of the party," reviews the work of the party leaders and sets policy. Until the late '20s, it actually had some power. But afterwards it has been only a blank check for Stalin and the Politburo. Calling of a Party Congress frequently-but not necessarily-means that Stalin wants to prepare the party for a shift in policy. The Congress is supposed to meet at least once every three years, but Stalin simply has not bothered to call one since...