Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist-lining Barisan Socialists, an extremist group that splintered from Lee's own People's Action Party in 1961, had sought to turn the referendum into a protest vote. The Socialists predicted that 70% of the ballots would be left blank, and Peking tried to buy a few votes by dangling hints that it would resume its once large rubber purchases if Singapore stayed out of the new federation. But it was Lee who wound up with 71% of the vote; barely 25% of the 561,559 ballots were blank...
Both Nationalist China and Israel received official invitations to the games. But when the Chinese received their packet of identity cards, which were to serve also as entry visas into Indonesia, they found only blank pieces of cardboard...
...home on the next plane. Indonesia's Foreign Minister Subandrio then announced that Nationalist China had been excluded from the games because of "the sneaky attempt of a Chinese sports official to slip into the country and disrupt the games." Come-Home Cables. Israel did not even receive blank cards. Djakarta's explanation: "Too many cards have been sent out, and an investigation is now proceeding." After that, repeated cables brought no response, and international telephone calls were invariably cut off. The Indonesians deadpanned: "Faulty communications." The Israelis finally got the message. Protested an Israeli official...
...impetus is neither a desire to play Lady Bountiful nor a shortage of paying summer jobs, but a useful blend of altruism and self-interest. High school seniors yearn to report a substantial entry in that "Civic Work?" blank on college applications; collegians may want to put sociology lectures to practice. The Peace Corps is the model−but most of the jobs to be done are right at home. Says one delighted Boston mother, whose teen-age daughter is toiling in a hospital ward this summer: "She goes charging out of here in the morning like Florence Nightingale riding...
...charges ranging from armed robbery to assaulting a police officer), his training camp visitors could be excused a certain amount of nervousness. But it was all only Liston's idea of a gag. Polino's lost "teeth" were actually white beans; the gun was a blank pistol, the blood ketchup−and the victims just Liston's playacting trainers. It is his sparring partners who are the victims of Liston's real malevolence...