Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those contemplating hitch-hiking home for Thanksgiving: wear a suit, bring various signs saying you are from various colleges and a blank check made payable to the Common-wealth of Massachusetts. For reasons of safety the State Police are now going to enforce the law against hitch-hiking on the Turnpike. Maximum cost for the trip home...
This is not to detract, however, from the power of Curwood's later performance. His blood-curdling reliving of the murder of his mother--given in Dos Passos-like blank verse--was delivered with such intense personal involvement that the description of the knifing itself was almost orgasmic...
...censorship and gave itself the power to take over any newspaper it chose "in the interest of public safety." Censors prevented the Rhodesia Herald, which opposed U.D.I., from putting out an independence extra; and when the paper finally appeared the next day, its pages were studded with gaping white blank spaces-one of them 20 in. long-where the censors' scissors had been at work...
...Singapore and Malaysia $630 million. Whitehall planners, currently preparing next February's defense review under the most stringent of cost-accounting standards, are confronted with a knotty dilemma. Britain must pare its projected 1970 defense costs from $6.7 billion to $5.6 billion; at the same time, the "ghastly blank" in the thin red line of defenses that will exist between Europe and Hong Kong must be filled if Britain is to meet her responsibilities in foreign policy, and provide support for her allies...
Three preceding calls were thwarted when English operators recognized the Beatle's private number and refused point blank to place the call...