Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...requested blank check for military assistance could make all Canada's military resources completely subject to Washington's orders. The cash-in-advance proposal would tie up Canada's scarce supply of U.S. dollars. The rule asking U.S. approval of arms exports was plainly impractical; almost every bit of arms and equipment that Canada manufactures has some U.S.-produced part...
...Hume Wrong, Canada's ambassador to the U.S., was getting ready to take the problem to Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The U.S. State Department asked Wrong to delay his visit for one day, and submitted informally a surprising new set of U.S. terms. The request for a blank check for military aid was dropped. The demand for cash in advance was changed; Canada could use letters of credit. The third stipulation-that Canada export no U.S.-made arms without permission-was watered down, giving Washington control only of equipment containing more than half U.S. parts...
...Actress Hepburn's Rosalind reflects too much the player and too little the part. She seems the very best sort of performer -talented, cultured and good-looking-in college dramatics; she plays the whole thing more as a romp than a love story, and does beautifully by the blank verse while skating right over the poetry. William Prince makes a pleasantly lovesick Orlando, Ernest Thesiger a relentlessly melancholy Jaques...
...will decide the election. The Tory press, however, was not soothed by Labor restraint. "LAND TAKE-OVER FEARED" was the Daily Express' interpretation of a Labor proposal for government cultivation of unused private land. To Lord Rother-mere's Daily Mail, the Labor Party manifesto was "a blank check on nationalization"; to his Evening News, it was a "pink overall," a "pink pig in a poke" or "a great red wolf...
...native New Yorker, still stubbornly seeking out the old, the fusty, and the slightly uncomfortable amidst the encroaching wilderness of stainless steel and blank glass, sighed a wistful sigh. The movers and shakers took no notice, determinedly pressed forward...