Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early days of a new Administration, "the nation has a sense that a page in history has been turned, and the new President has a blank sheet upon which to write." So says Kermit Gordon, president of Washington's Brookings Institution, in Agenda for the Nation, a 620-page study released last week. In no field is this truer than in foreign affairs...
...candidate, Richard Nixon left frustratingly vague the precise foreign-policy lines he might pursue. As President, Nixon may find that lack of commitment something of an asset. Pinned down by few definite pledges, he will have considerable latitude in filling the blank sheet. The world's leaders are well aware of this. Moscow, though initially suspicious of Nixon, is already dropping hints about renewing U.S.Soviet arms-control talks. More surprisingly, Peking last week proposed reopening the Warsaw talks with the U.S. on Feb. 20; the meeting would be the first between the two countries in 13 months...
...Mansoura high school boys, aged 14 to 17, went on a rampage against the decree. They were later joined by nonstudents, who turned the demonstration into a full-dress political protest with cries of "Down with Nasser!" When the mob marched on police headquarters, police opened fire at point-blank range, killing one blind high school student and three nonstudents...
...sweat-stained shirts, their bare feet stuck into rubber Japanese zori, they look to be a much scruffier lot than the colonial swells at the Rèsidence. They are much more close-mouthed as well. All attempts to start conversations fail; their thin, long-nosed Gallic faces remain blank...
...Think of Harvard as a blank wall," Cluster said. "That's the way it is and that's the way many think it should be. We think there's another way to look at it. The university is here for people to act upon, to shape and to mold. This is our reaction to Harvard's attempt to stifle creativity...