Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Calkins says. "He's the world's finest fundraiser. When you talk about the sheik of somewhere who might have an interest [in giving money to Harvard], his eyes light up and he's off to the airport." Calkins also credits him with being able to tell people point-blank that they aren't offering enough money...
...anyone in the alumni office is listening, just send me a blank envelope every year. Spare me the full-color pamphlets; I'd rather stick to my own mental pictures. As for my 50-yard-line seat at The Game, pass it along to someone who might like to actually see the guy in his Lit and Arts section score the winning touchdown...
...from being a lump of clay or a blank slate. Brazelton conceives of a newborn with a distinct personality who has an impact on the parent-child relationship in his own right. This conception relieves some of the anxiety of parents who feel they alone are responsible for their child's character, and who cannot understand how anything could go wrong when they are doing everything right...
...specifically sparkled in the second period, robbing Minnesota's Neal Broten from point-blank range and snuffing Keith Acton from just outside the crease...
French law gives the National Assembly the right to ask questions about the operations of the intelligence services, but the government's usual, and accepted, answer is a blank "secret de la défense. The West German Bundestag does have a watchdog committee for that nation's equivalent of the CIA. But the committee's eight members are sworn to deepest secrecy The Bundestag has declared members of the antinuclear Green Party ineligible to serve on the committee because they would not take the pledge...