Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Menachem Begin refuses to struggle with this dilemma. He still likes to carry the blank check of Jewish history; he finds it useful in the conduct of government and war. "No one," Begin's government repeats with a baleful glare, "will preach to us ethics and respect for human life." Why not? Because of the record, because of pogroms and the 6 million dead in the Holocaust. There are many centuries in that line. Begin claims that as the Israeli dispensation. That is the moral capital of world Jewry, cataclysmically acquired. Do not presume to discuss suffering and death...
...women managing prisons are generally not sadists, and the ordinary, lawful discipline at their disposal is great. Withholding privileges such as weekly phone calls or Monday Night Football is, amid the blank, shuffling tedium of prison life, no small punishment. For more intractable violators, officials can lengthen prison terms by docking "good time," the sentence-shortening days an inmate earns for obedience. Or they may place troublemaking prisoners in some form of solitary confinement...
...know every battle of the Vietnam War but are enough he admit their lust for the trend setter bunne. No, they must still atone for their occasional outbrusts of sarcasm or thier lingering interests in science fiction. Predominantly male (but includeng a few young women who write bad blank verse and read Virginia Woolf) the special interest partisans the hope and promise of their generation...
...well guarded that his protection became a major irritant between U.S. and British security officials last month when the President stayed at Windsor Castle. Still, the Queen may need more security than she thinks. Only 13 months before her un scheduled bedside audience, a bystander fired six blank pistol shots in her direction as she was riding down London's Mall to the Trooping of the Color. As Alice might have put it, God-and tighter security-save the Queen...
Suddenly, during a TV news report on the Israeli conflict in Lebanon, the screen goes blank. White lettering appears on a stark black background: "22 seconds deleted by Israeli censors." Or footage is left intact, but a legend is superimposed: "Cleared by Israeli censors." Night after night during the past couple of weeks, such unfamiliar signs of censors' intrusions have punctuated newscasts on ABC, NBC and CBS, usually in stories about suffering by Lebanese civilians in bombed-out Beirut...