Word: blankness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thanks. That did it. Bevin flatly rejected Molotov's dilatory proposals. Roared he: "How would the Soviet Union like it if she were asked for a blank check?" The British broke the conference's strict news blackout with an announcement that the session had ended in "complete disagreement...
...Henry Morgenthau [then Secretary of the Treasury] . . . kept wanting to know where he stood [with Truman] and finally, one day, put the question point-blank to the President. What happened then reminds me of the epitaph I once saw on a tombstone in a Western mining town :He kept asking for it until...
Nine girls in the senior class at Royal Oak (Mich.) High School went through graduation ceremonies last week, but they didn't graduate. They got blank diplomas instead. It was Principal Miles W. Marks's way of punishing them for belonging to high-school sororities, illegal in Michigan...
...Model. Lazareff and a talented young (26) Resistance leader named Aristide Blank had moved in on Paris with the puny staff of the underground Défense de la France. They renamed it France-Soir, packed it with straight news for Parisians who got almost everything but news in most of the French press. France-Soir pushed swiftly to France's top circulation (about 600,000 daily). U.S. newsmen credit its success to shrewd application of tried-&-true U.S. tricks: big, crisp headlines, heavy accent on crime, bright feature stories and splashy makeup. Although he dashes off headlines with...
...steady job and to write in their leisure hours), "suppose yourself established in any honorable occupation. From the manufactory or counting-house . . . you return at evening . . . with the very countenances of your wife and children brightened. . . . Then . . . you retire into your study [where] your writing-desk with its blank paper and . . . other implements will appear as a chain of flowers." So Author Read obediently took a job in the Treasury-and quickly discovered that "dear Coleridge" had been talking through his hat. Nonetheless, every night for years Read fought his tired brain, turned out poems and essays. Finally, he found...