Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...field, please allow me to explain. When someone fingers your account on the Harvard UNIX server, the screen displays the last time and place that you logged on, as well as an optional message--the plan--that greets whoever is fingering you. Most often, these plan files are either blank or filled with a brief witty saying. It's not uncommon, however, to see plan files that push the very envelope of the genre. One person I know is serializing a soft-porn novel. Another has cut-and-pasted a 90-page academic paper. There is no real limit...
...just leave your plan file blank. Every writer knows that sometimes silence is most eloquent...
...times, Cirri was the lone force keeping the Eagles involved, as he made several quality saves, including stoning Buttles from point-blank range in the second...
...times, Cirri was the lone force keeping the Eagles involved, as he made several quality saves, including stoning Buttles from point-blank range in the second...
...Pinkerton Guard having lunch in the Garage. I asked him point-blank how much he made an hour. He said, "I'm a sergeant so I make a little more than most guards, $8.40." I then asked how he could live on $8.40 an hour. He responded, "I'm on Section 8 so I don't have to worry about rent...