Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right now the wise student should wait, if at all possible, before signing any blank with a service emblem on the top. The wise poker player holds his bet until the dealer has finished shuffling the cards...
Director Max Nosseck didn't spare the blank cartridges, but the action is still dull and stereotyped. Roughly every five minutes, the beleaguered comrades draw up into a photogenic little group to pop away at the omnipresent Red hordes. The American battle tactics are about as clever as those of General Braddock during the Indian Wars, but the band gets through anyway...
...Because there is seldom enough infantry to protect them, artillerymen often have to double as foot soldiers. It is not unusual in Korea to see a battery with its guns drawn up pointing outward in a circle, its gunners ready to fight off enemy infantry with rifles and point-blank artillery fire. One battery has been attacked eight times by Red infantry. Said Lieut. Charles Skinner: "This isn't like the last war in Europe, where the front lines were in front of your guns. Here, the front lines are all around...
...howitzers are still the standard weapons of U.S. division artillery. The high-velocity 90-mm. tank gun is tops at lashing shells point-blank into enemy-held caves or tunnels. Some infantrymen swear by the twin 40-mm. antiaircraft gun, mounted on a halftrack. Said one colonel: "They're just ideal for those Korean hills-they go over them like a vacuum cleaner...
...Bachelor of Sacred Theology, 1942; M.A. 1942, University of Pennsylvania.) Nkrumah was not among the crowd; a year ago he had been clapped into Cell No. 9 in Accra prison (two-year term) for sedition and inciting workers to strike. At the time of his arrest, a blank Communist Party card and a paper calling for a West African soviet socialist republic were found in Nkrumah's belongings. Observers of the Gold Coast political scene said, however, that Nkrumah was "a mere student of Communism," rather than a party member...