Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion supplemental appropriation that the President will request to finance the war in Viet Nam. Rivers, a Democrat and member of military committees for 25 years, says: "I think there are times when the Department of Defense forgets that the Congress exists for reasons other than to provide a blank check. I think the American people will always be willing to pay the price for having too much defense rather than risk the inestimable cost of having too little...
...Surrealist René Magritte's turn, and the exhibition of 82 paintings proved that the Belgian-born artist has lost none of his wizardry. Loaves of bread fly in formation beyond a stone embrasure in The Golden Legend; an immense rock floats weightless in The Glass Key; in Blank Signature, a fine lady upon a chestnut horse rides mysteriously through an enchanted forest, passing before and beyond a landscape painted magically as if on a vertical Venetian blind...
...assembled outside Ma drid one year ago on Dec. 28, they found almost ten acres of reproductions of Moscow streets and buildings, and three hours north, on the Spanish plains near Soria, were Zhivago's Ural settings. MGM, which financed the film, had all but given Lean a blank check. As a result, costume details, down to wool petticoats, were authentic and logistics were superb. Marveled Sir Ralph Richardson, "This is what it must have been like traveling with Napoleon...
...When a politician named Marcilhacy, whom the Duck disliked, declared he would run for the presidency, the Duck ran a story: "Paris-Match announces the publication of a book entitled The Life of Marcilhacy. We have been able to acquire the text of this book. Here it is." A blank space followed...
...fearful cost. The initial force, a battalion of Vietnamese rangers, was barely 15 miles west of the district town of Tarn Ky when a regiment of V.C.s buried deep in bunkers and armed with .50-cal. ma chine guns and 81-mm mortars let loose at point-blank range. The battalion's two lead companies were virtually wiped out. The Marines dashed to positions south and west of the Viet Cong, while other South Vietnamese troops took up blocking positions. The enemy turned the flank of one Vietnamese infantry battalion and, coming up by surprise from behind, decimated...