Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever since the bodies of more than 4,000 Polish officers were found in 1943 in the Katyn forest, near the Soviet city of Smolensk, their fate has been a disturbing blank spot in Polish history. Moscow has maintained that the cold- blooded killings were carried out by the Nazis after they invaded the U.S.S.R. in 1941. But Poles have long suspected that the officers were executed and buried in mass graves by Soviet forces...
...anyone could come up with evidence of misconduct strong enough to swing a majority of the Senate against Tower. But at minimum, the momentum has leaked out of his confirmation drive. Tower already has the unenviable distinction of being the first Cabinet hopeful in memory to be asked point-blank if he is a drunk...
...flacks and barracuda (from whom he was, to put it mildly, not protected by his wife Gala, who died in 1982), were a cautionary horror. Several years ago, when his hands had long been too shaky to draw but could still scribble, he signed ream upon ream of blank sheets that now bear forged "Dali lithographs," the pride and joy of suckers from New Jersey to Brisbane, Australia...
...Year? Like a condemned man fantasizing about a reprieve from the Governor, I riffled through my woefully nondescript black vinyl 1988 Daily Planner praying that somehow it contained extra pages for the first week of January. Instead, with fear and trembling, I peered into the abyss: a blank daily entry for New Year's Eve and then no more. Nothingness. Maybe I could take the cowardly way out and try to recycle the pages from last January. But there in big block letters on the top of Jan. 4, 1988, was the chilling inscription: "In Iowa with Gephardt." Even masochism...
...Gladys and her young charge, Miss Moore. But when Anita was ill, Gladys was 70 years old and possibly had a drinking problem. Carey's description of the battle over Loos' will and her friends scandalized reaction to her relationship with Gladys and Miss Moore, who are Black, is blank, uninflected. The sadness and tragedy of Anita's loneliness are left unexamined...