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Word: blanking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...September, the acceptance-seeking frosh is not going to give himself away by appearance or age; rather, the Yardling will make his mistake by confusing Mem Church with Mem Hall (which is a dead ringer for a cathedral anyway, with Michael Sandel as high priest), or reacting with a blank look when someone asks him for his bursar's card, or confusing a gov jock and a crew jock...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: College Colloquialism | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...U.S.S.R. With unfaded memories of the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states in 1940 and Stalin's man-made famine that some say killed 6 million in the Ukraine in the 1930s, they argue that at the close of the war the Red Army seized unused German stationery, blank military forms, typewriters, inks and stamps, all useful for producing forged documents. They charge that the Soviet Union has fabricated evidence as a way to intimidate fervently anti-Communist East Europeans settled in the U.S. "The OSI is in cahoots with the Soviet KGB," says Bill Liscynesky, president of Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Problems Of Crime and Punishment | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...case life becomes too inexplicable, students can use blank desks and walls as a forum for their particular opinions on life...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: MAKING YOUR MARK ON HARVARD | 4/17/1987 | See Source »

...story book of this season, they should leave the last two pages blank. Fill them in yourself. Rewrite the dream. The Final Four in Detroit was a downer...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: So Long, Icemen | 4/8/1987 | See Source »

With its huge vacant lots and denuded downtown, modern Managua resembles a blank screen onto which outsiders can project their most wishful fears or fantasies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surfaces the Jaguar Smile | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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