Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mind gone blank, eh? Never been down to the Business School field...
...customer in a Chicago shoe boutique wanted something to set off a new dress that would also go with the rest of her wardrobe. The salesclerk asked hopefully: "Have you thought of pewter?" The customer looked blank for a moment, then replied: "Not since I last bought beer mugs...
...that is true, a revived concern about the Viet Nam veterans reflects an end to denial?perhaps even to anger. Says Yale Psychiatrist Art Blank, himself a vet: "America is trying to confront Viet Nam through the veterans; the country had suppressed the war, didn't want to deal with it." Now the nation may be evaluating the long-term damage...
...although researchers suspect that a virus or flaw in the body's immune system may be involved" [June 22]. If "externalized anger and rage" can cause an Adolf Hitler to act as he did, if it can cause men to attempt to assassinate Presidents and Popes, and shoot blank cartridges at Queens, why cannot "internalized anger and rage" cause the bowels to churn themselves into inflammatory masses, coronary arteries to turn into morbid spasms and bronchial tubes to go into asthmatic constrictions? There are many professionals who believe there may be a great psychosomatic component to Crohn...
...first proposition to cast lots. Captain Pollard would not listen to it, saying to the others "No, but if I die first you are welcome to subsist on my remains," and [Pollard's nephew Owen] Coffin joined in the entreaty to cast lots. They then cut some blank paper checks, [and] put them in a hat. The lot fell upon Coffin, which he distinctly declared to be a fair lot and that he wished to abide by it. Captain Pollard then declared that he would take the lot himself, but to this Coffin would not listen. This...