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...Unbelievable religious persecution!" cried the Archbishop of Cape Town. Most Reverend Joost de Blank, and the chief rabbi of the Transvaal, L. I. Rabinowitz, appealed to the government to revoke the deportation order...
...late Columnist Ernie Pyle reported the kind of thing that is said about Nebraska's The Sower. "That blankety-blank-," said an oldtimer, "it's supposed to be a man sowing grain. But just look at it. He's barefooted. He's got the wrong foot forward for a sower, and in his hand where he should have grain, it looks like he's got a cannonball. Nobody in Nebraska ever looked like that." But of all capitol finials, none has had a sadder career than Hartford's Genius of Connecticut. When...
...University of Illinois last week, a big man in a rumpled brown suit strode up to a blackboard and wrote: ' times zero equals zero." Then he asked ten junior-high-school students to make the sentence "true" by filling in the blank. As 40 schoolteachers from as far away as Florida and Alaska looked on, the students excitedly gave Mathematician Max Beber-man their answer: the sentence is already true because anything times zero equals zero. What the teachers saw were ninth-graders discovering a math principle entirely by themselves. This approach is so important to Beberman that...
...also a key vantage point from which to rain down rocks on an enemy neighbor's marble roof. As soon as one member of a family was killed, clan warfare was declared, with the towers as citadels. When gunpowder was introduced, cannon fired away at point-blank range across the narrow streets, and not a move could be made by day without a fusillade of gunshots. Food and ammunition were smuggled into the towers by night, and since the feuds sometimes went on for years, each newborn boy was hailed as "another gun for the family." Meanwhile, entire families...
...short, happy life as heavyweight champ, Ingemar Johansson (see SPORT) found U.S. advertisers beating a path to his throne with blank checks and myriad products for him to endorse-everything from Pioneer key rings to Man-Tan and Lord West tuxedos. Only a few went away disappointed. Among them: a vacuum cleaner manufacturer who wanted the champ to lie down on a rug in the ad, and a group of prosperous salami makers who wanted Ingo to pose beside a pile of salami (Ingo agreed to do it, but not for hay: he asked...