Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cisneros deserves plenty of credit for denying the booters the air space in front of his net. The sophomore goalie also made a clutch save on a point-blank effort by Lanzillo late in the half that could have changed the tenor of the closing period...
Crimson high-scorer Kelly Landry decided to generate her own scoring opportunity two minutes into the second half. Landry picked up the ball at midfield, wove through a labyrinth of Eagle defenders and drilled a point-blank salve past B.C. netminder Kathy Brophy to tie the score...
...expert on Russia," Jason says. "Dah. I speak the lingo," comes the reply. A little later, Leo--after weeks of puppy-eyed stares at Phoebe --confesses he has written a feature story about her simply in order to see her. She stares at him--"Why!" -another blank "Because I want to marry you." Silence, more stares. "It'll take me a little while to absorb that." A long, lugubrious stare: "Absorbed it yet?" Etcetera, etcetera, ad nauseum...
...other extreme are societies without life. The vital signs are missing. When they are confronted with the need for contrition, they can manage only a growl and a blank stare. Such is the case in the petrified remains of the burned-out revolutionary states, in what Philosopher Michael Walzer calls the "failed totalitarianism" that is descended from the classic, frenzied model of Hitler and Stalin and Mao. Such is the case in the Kremlin, which had already put its frozen heart on display with its stunningly barren funeral for Leonid Brezhnev, and now showed the world that...
...white and blue sneakers. His neck, waist, wrists and feet were loosely bound to the chair. Twenty-six feet away hung a sailcloth partition with five slits. Hidden behind the curtain stood five riflemen armed with .30-.30 rifles, four loaded with steel-jacketed shells, the fifth with a blank...