Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carbine Williams (MGM) fictionalizes the real-life story of David Marshall Williams (James Stewart), who perfected a revolutionary carbine while serving a 30-year sentence for manslaughter. More factual than inspired, Carbine Williams often draws a blank dramatically...
Cain excitedly realized that maybe he had stumbled on a better story than the YB-60. But when he quizzed sources at Convair with "What did I see?" he got only blank stares. Finally, as the Pentagon group started back to Washington, one officer told the persistent newsman: "Don't write about it, and I'll see if I can get it released...
Needler countered by saying that; "we need someone who knows issues, has worked with issues, and is trained in the issues, and I would say that to elect Ike would be like writing a blank check, since he isn't committed on anything...
...Exercise Long Horn, the vast Army-Air Force mock war in Texas, the green-clad Aggressor forces had just seized a position deep behind the defenders' lines and were massing for a new attack. Suddenly a blank mortar shell exploded over the invaders' heads with a roar and a burst of smoke. The umpires stunned the Aggressors with a terse ruling: 1,600 of their men had just been put out of action; the exploding shell symbolized a devastating hit by a revolutionary new weapon, atomic artillery...
Pantomime. On his fourth day in camp, the authorities sat Janos down before some sheets of blank foolscap and by gestures urged him to draw. Janos threw his pencil to the floor and ran away. Time after time the camp officers coaxed him back with lumps of sugar. Gradually, as thin fingers traced deliberate line after line on the yellow paper, a crude autobiography in hieroglyphics began to take shape...