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Word: blankings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...room is completely dark and silent, save a noisy film projector which rattles as its shoots an image onto a blank wall...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Probing For That Key Weakness | 10/1/1987 | See Source »

...Rather has always been considered a "hot" presence. Last week, however, Rather's colleagues at CBS were debating whether their intense, somewhat melodramatic anchor had grown a few degrees too hot after he angrily walked off the set of the CBS Evening News, leaving the network with a blank screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Anchor Away | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

Stability was further shattered by the assassination on Saturday of Leandro Alejandro, 27, leader of Bayan, perhaps the largest legal alliance of the Philippine left. Alejandro was shot at point-blank range by unidentified gunmen outside Bayan headquarters just two days before he was scheduled to lead an antigovernment rally. Summing up the air of unrest, Businessman Antonio Gatmaitan said, "Remember the old curse, 'May you live in interesting times'? I think this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Things Fall Apart | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...fill in the blank), how are ya'? Where are you living? I'm in blank House--we got a triple for five people, a walk-through. What classes you taking? Oh, really? I took it last year. A flaming gut, no shit. So, where did you go this summer to get that great tan? You say you roller-skated along the banks of the Nile to raise money for the homeless and then spent a month touring beaches in Spain, France and Italy? Sounds really great...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: How I Didn't Spend My Summer Vacation | 9/25/1987 | See Source »

Seated in the mahogany-paneled state dining room at Malacanang Palace, members of President Corazon Aquino's Cabinet stared at the blank sheets of paper that had been placed before them. "Of course, you all know what this meeting is about," said the President. Most did not, though they may have had a sense of deja vu once she began explaining. Aquino reminded them that ten months earlier she had asked the Cabinet to resign in the turmoil following an + alleged coup plot. Now, in the wake of the most serious coup attempt yet, it was time for another reshuffle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines The Joker Was Not Laughing | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

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