Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Islamic Revolutionary Council, the Ayatullah Khomeini declared that he would never again read Ayandegan, Tehran's leading morning daily (circ. 400,000). After thousands of rock-throwing demonstrators massed at the paper's office, editors published a farewell issue consisting of a front-page editorial and three blank pages. Said the editorial: "Until the government clarifies its position regarding the press and guarantees our professional rights, we cannot produce the paper...
...rival instead, White went to the mayor's office and shot him. Then he shot Milk, an avowed homosexual who had frequently opposed him on the board. Norman told the jury that White had leaned over the prostrate bodies of his victims and finished them off with point-blank shots into their skulls...
...French body language. "If you're off rhythm, it interferes with communications," he says. "I think of communication as a dance between two people. Sounds are often just the music to accompany the communication that takes place." That is why so many American tourists, fresh from Berlitz, get blank stares in France instead of directions: they understand the words but not the music...
Edward King's greatest sin in the eyes of his detractors is not his ineptness in personnel administration, but his courage in opposing today's giveaway mentality of the bureaucracy and the media; it is that one person's need constitutes an automatic blank check on someone else's abilities. We love him for the enemies he has made...
Mike Faught, frustrated after missing several point-blank opportunities earlier in the afternoon, closed out the Crimson scoring with one of his patented intercontinental rockets...