Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Albany to look for a job. He hijacked the Mohawk airliner with a track-meet starter's pistol, demanded and got $200,000 in ransom money, then forced the plane to land in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. There VonGeorge suffered his final setback: he was shotgunned to death at point-blank range by an FBI agent...
...largely silent about his personal life and background. To fill in the gaps, Correspondent James Willwerth visited Jersey City, where Wilson grew up. Willwerth had two leads: a brief obituary on Wilson's mother and the fact that Wilson had attended Public School 14. Both led to blank walls. More legwork produced the name of Cornelius Parker, an undertaker who had grown up in Wilson's neighborhood and has many contacts in the black community. Parker took Willwerth on an area tour, during which they found a number of Wilson's old acquaintances. After interviewing...
...Lawrence goalie, Alan Howes, had kept his team in the game with some brilliant saves, but in the third period his defense gave up, and he would have needed a fishing net to have stopped the barrage of Crimson breakaways and point blank shots...
...delightfully improbable piece of casting, Raquel Welch is going to play that blank-eyed, block-bodied moppet of the comic strips, Little Orphan Annie, in a CBS-TV special called Funny Papers. Annie's superrich, superreactionary guardian, Daddy Warbucks, will be portrayed by Carroll O'Connor, the Archie Bunker of All in the Family. "We got into a little discussion about just how sexy Daddy Warbucks was," said Raquel. "We wondered how close he should get to Little Orphan Annie, and whether we should indicate that there might have been a little something going on between them...
...lines containing 41 digits each, or 41 lines of 31 digits. Breaking the message into 41 lines produces only a confusing clutter of zeros and ones, but in 31 lines (shown above), an organized pattern emerges. When that pattern is clarified by substituting dark spots for the ones and blank spaces for the zeros, it speaks volumes to scientific cryptographers. The most obvious information is that the transmitting race consists of two-legged, two-armed creatures who exist as two different sexes and care for their young. The male figure is pointing to the fourth in a line of eight...