Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month, some thousands will soon be called to serve who might previously have postponed or entirely escaped military service. Across the U.S., young men are once more watching their local mailboxes anxiously for the nation's most unpopular piece of unsolicited mail, that elongated postcard with the blank space after "class" filled...
...most recent edition of the Dodd Report on Communism in the Teach-In Movement contains a blank page. Since the report itself and the specific charge that has been retracted were widely publicized last October, the story of how the page came to be blank ought to be better known...
...arrest Figon, but, they reported, he had committed suicide before he could be taken alive. With that, the scandal could no longer be suppressed. As the satiric Canard Enchainé, right or wrong, put it last week: "Figon committed suicide with a shot fired against him from point-blank range." De Gaulle's campaign opponents, François Mitterrand and Jean Lecanuet, demanded that the truth be told, flayed the Gaullists for trying to cover up the affair...
...right word in distinguishing between mat and man. New letters are introduced, and by Book 7 he can handle such words as sandwich, haystack and yesterday. Each step requires the child to either make a yes-no choice, select the words to complete a sentence, or fill in a blank in a sentence. By Book 21 he has been introduced to all the toughest exceptions to the phonetic rules of English. His reading vocabulary totals 2,892 words -including deceitful, labyrinth and ridiculous-and he is reading action-packed stories about Greek mythological heroes. Teachers normally limit the children...
...learning how to steer. According to the plot, Cassel has other things on his mind, for he plays a professional scapegrace taught by his knavish old granddad "to be an idle man." His successful misadventures are ultimately summed up in a bestseller entitled Doing Nothing, which consists of 200 blank pages...