Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COUPLE OF YEARS AGO some smart publisher came out with a joke book called The Wit and Wisdom of Spiro Agnew--filled with blank pages. Billy Carter doesn't have any of Spiro Agnew's problems. He wasn't vice president (he couldn't even be elected mayor of Plains, Georgia) and when Billy pleaded "no contest" in court it was for selling beer on Sunday. That's the kind of material publishers and other purveyors of presidential pabulum realize people relate to nowadays at the supermarket counter. He's real, they say. "Billy Carter, philosopher-king, America's newest...
...couldn't make the Alpine team as a freshman," Rand said, "and I wanted to try jumping. Little did I know they'd (I can't read my writing, but it's a four-letter verb. Fill in the blank yourself) me into it as soon as I put on skis...
...course, it's still OK for prospective freshwomen to play the violin, ace their SATs, or live in Idaho. Just as long as they don't leave the athletic section of their application blank...
...blue sneakers. His neck, waist, wrists and feet were loosely bound to the chair. Twenty-six feet away hung a sailcloth partition with five slits. Hidden behind the curtain stood five riflemen armed with .30-.30 deer rifles, four loaded with steel-jacketed shells, the fifth with a blank...
Sometimes when Emerson approached Americans whose husbands or sons had died in the war, she discovered what every cub police reporter finds -the survivors' numbness, an element of blank, nothing much to say. All of the Viet Nam decade, of course, was filled with grotesqueries, wild ricochets of irony. Emerson recalls the case of a poetic 22-year-old private whose job it was to compose elaborate-and totally fictitious-battle citations for senior officers who wished to leave Viet Nam with a Silver Star. The secretary of a local draft board in Gordonsville. Tenn. tells Emerson: "Five died...