Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pork. The budget-cutters were also beginning to cast a flinty eye at the Pentagon, which was down for the lion's share-a lump sum $41.4 billion of the coming budget. There were doubtless millions to be saved by resisting the Pentagon's request for a blank check, and making the admirals and generals come up with some specific figures...
That Oxford Blank-Blank. Truman's dislike for Rhodes Scholar Fulbright was a long-standing one, dating from Fulbright's suggestion after the Republican victory in 1946 that Harry Truman should appoint a Republican Secretary of State and resign in his favor, following the English parliamentary pattern. In his private conversation, Truman has since referred to Fulbright as "that overeducated, Oxford blank-blank...
...them. "Train a man because he deserves it ... We all worry about how we are going to train a young man for his job and his place in society," he declared. "But nobody has ever worried about training them to fight. We have sent men overseas without one blankety-blank bit of training. There are more graves overseas for that reason than any other I know...
...many imaginative American entrepreneurs advertise: "Add a Fifth Freedom, freedom from---," and fill in the blank with such items as catarrh, termites, furnace-stoking, or more generally, toil of any kind? Surely a body devoted to general human welfare, such as the UN, cannot afford in its concern for the great to forget the small...
Furthermore, the acting is not up to the usual English standards. Jimmy Hanley plays the rookie with a completely blank expression. Dirk Bogarde portrays the mean and always-villainous killer with a similar lack of imagination. Jack warner acts the old Bobby very well; it was too bad he had to be the corpse...