Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pickle fortune, was asked to leave Brigantine, N.J. because of an intoxicated trigger finger. Given, who was in trouble back in 1948 for threatening an old man with a sword cane, set off a disturbance last week by visiting a children's party with five pistols, and firing blank cartridges in salvos while the kiddies fled, screaming, from every exit...
Finch learns how to play company politics and win the boss's attention. "There are always two or more factions [e.g., Blank v. Threep] fighting for control," advises Mead. "It is essential to maintain strict neutrality long enough to determine which side is going to win . . . After it is clear that Threep, say, is going down, the humane thing to do is to finish him off as quickly as possible. Attack him freely, and preferably in Blank's presence . . . From this point on, follow Blank loyally. There is nothing like loyalty, as long as your man moves...
...Mick") Carney. Since Carney's land forces were all Italian, an Italian general, Maurizio de Castiglione, who fought under Rommel in North Africa, was appointed to head them. But the fighting men of Turkey and Greece, newly admitted last February to NATO's forces, refused point-blank to take orders from an Italian. The Greeks still resent Italy's jackal invasion of their land in 1940; the sturdy Turks just do not admire Italian soldiering. Britain's Mediterranean fleet, under the command of Vice Admiral Earl Mountbatten, proved equally stuffy about taking orders from Carney himself...
...Detroiter blinked at the big red lettering on the card: EN CAS D'ACCIDENT. After a blank for his name & address: Citoyen américain, je désire être transporté d'urgence à I'hôpital américain de Paris. The visitor filled in his name and hotel address, tucked the card into his wallet, and stepped briskly out into the warm, exciting Paris night to take his chances with wine, women and the world's wildest motorists. The Detroiter, and thousands like him, felt a bit more secure just...
When British and U.S. Government oil experts sat down in 1944, with U.S. State Department blessings, and agreed on a broad policy to stabilize markets in the postwar world, the U.S. oilmen were worried. President J. Howard Pew of Sun Oil Co. attacked the agreement as a "blank check" to the Government that would involve the domestic oil industry in a "vicious cartel system...