Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than a dozen years, Hedda Nussbaum, 46, a onetime children's book editor whom Steinberg is alleged to have brutally battered. Last week the courtroom was riveted by a prosecutor's videotape made of Nussbaum after the pair were arrested last year. It showed a woman with the blank gaze of a zombie, covered with scars and bruises, her right leg bearing green ulcerations, and with several bones and joints misshapen from injuries that were never properly treated. Sitting up front every day, just behind Joel Steinberg, is Michelle Launders, 27, Lisa's natural mother. She was 19, pregnant...
Dukakis spent the fall on the defensive rather than taking charge of the agenda. He entered the campaign a blank slate, and Bush scrawled all over him. Bush made liberal a dirty word, while Dukakis stupidly insisted that such a label was "meaningless." For John Sasso, the street-savvy alter ego of Dukakis who was rehabilitated on Labor Day weekend to take over the campaign, this single mistake spelled the end. "One of the rules of the business is somebody gets to fill up the cup," he explained. "If you want to be successful, you have to fill...
...register a vote for a write-in candidate like Graham on a vote-a-matic machine, voters have to leave the ballot blank, and write the candidate's name, address, and office sought on the ballot wrapper. Graham's stickers, which bear the same information were intended to be placed on this envelope...
...best case scenario for Graham would be that the 2870 blank ballots--more than 17 percent of the total ballots cast--at some point were marked with a preference for her. Add to this total the number of Thompson votes which Graham claims might have been meant for her, and the outcome could go either...
...number of blank ballots this year, however, is well within the range of past Cambridge state representative elections. When Graham ran unopposed in 1986, for example, more than 32 percent of the voters left their ballots blank. Even in contested elections, it is not uncommon for 10 to 15 percent of the ballots to be left blank...