Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left the prisoners, and went inland along a new road which a tank had just smashed out of a rubble-heaped path. I caught up with the tank just in time to see its 105 fire two rounds point-blank into a deep cave. A muffled series of explosions rumbled inside the cave, which had been used to store ammunition...
...eyes came around, there was blackness before him . . . Hasselborg instinctively shifted his eyes upward toward the top of this blank wall. His mouth sagged open in his beard and his eyes went glassy at what he saw. There was a splotch of red on top of the thing . . . The bloodshot eyes . . . glared down at him from a height twice his own . . . Yes, it was the gigantic bear-the one he had killed but a moment ago. He had forgotten his own precepts about approaching bears until they were dead. And his rifle stood against a bush two steps behind, ineffective...
...manner just as startling. As the day's first edition and the paper's last rolled from the presses, a neat little announcement was pinned to the bulletin board: the paper was closing because "present costs make the decision necessary." Stunned reporters and copyreaders exchanged blank, bleak looks, then drifted aimlessly out the door and into nearby bars. There was little use in looking for jobs on other papers in Oakland and San Francisco; they were fully staffed...
...mark, blonde, self-contained Joan "smoked" (shattered to dust) 100 straight clay pigeons. That gave her a tie with four others. In a 75-bird shoot-off, Joan tightened up a bit: she missed one. The others missed more. Joan won by one shot from sharpshooting Texas Champion Dean Blank...
Malik is probably not capable of believing anything he was not taught to believe. Once a couple of years ago, after an affable dinner and a round of brandy, a Western diplomat asked him point-blank why he acted the way he did. Malik hesitated a moment, then calmly replied: "But I must obey my instructions." There seemed to be no cynicism in the answer...