Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students went elsewhere) we were again met by a welcoming delegation and were brought to a place especially for returning students. Food and lodging were free. It was like an employment and placement agency. The purpose of the place was to find jobs for us. We filled out a blank about our schooling, training, and a short biography. Various job offers came almost daily; we could take or leave them. Also, of course, we went out and looked for jobs, helped by the educational department if help is requested or required. There were no requests or even suggestions that...
When a girl forgets to sign in, the night watchman discovers the blank space on his rounds and awakens the house president who looks for the girl, usually found asleep in her room...
...committed the U.S. firmly to internationalism after World War II. In 1944 he became a Senator. Two years later, when the Republicans captured Congress, he proposed that Harry Truman resign in favor of a Republican. Ever since, the President has called the junior Senator from Arkansas "that overeducated Oxford blank-blank." A legislator with a moral sense, Fulbright was offended as he dug deeper & deeper into the activities of the RFC. One day last week he rose in the Senate to discuss his feelings about the current standards of U.S. morality...
...some of the group examined the Maryland law in action. Surely these men, at least, know that real subversion is not stopped by this kind of law: the man who will actually commit treason and sabotage will not wince at having to tell a lie on his loyalty oath blank. By letting the state control thought, by damning all "left-wing" groups together, the law itself subverts the entire way of life which we are now struggling to preserve and spread...
...tales of scandal and fraud hovering over his Administration, said the President, were just not true. He would answer that point-blank and categorically. His house was always in order; it was a clean house. His people were honorable men, and he would not have them if they were...