Word: blankness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Government censorship does not permit the opposition to print any news about the murders of its candidates. Editors have sometimes been hard put to it to fill blank spaces, since the Government does not permit newspapers to show evidences of censorship...
...night, alone in his studio or his bedroom, he wrestles with dialogue, penciling it into the blank strips he will sketch next day, and erasing it over & over until it rings true. Somehow he finds time to contrive bright new baubles of incident to hang on his thin thread of plot...
...Manhattan's nine dailies are now a nickel except the twopenny tabloids, the Mirror and Daily News, and the bulky Times, which sells its ad-rich product (at 3?) for little more than it pays for the blank paper (newsprint has jumped from $48 to $84 a ton since...
Long before Robinson died in 1935, U.S. readers recognized him as a poet of fine conscience and objective talent; so did readers abroad, for whom Robinson's poetry represented something considerable in U.S. writing. A shy, silent New Englander, the poet spent his last years writing long blank-verse narratives, three of them based, as were Tennyson's Idylls of the King, on Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Subtle and skillful as these were-more so than Tennyson's-they are not, in Critic Winters' opinion, Robinson's best work. He has selected...
...postwar" G.M. cars-1948 models of Chevrolets, Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles. G.M. President Charles E. Wilson said that G.M. had canceled its orders for dies for 1948 models because strikes and shortages have put G.M. production so far behind schedule. As far as G.M. was concerned, 1948 would be a blank year for low-priced cars; the next such models would be 1949 (out in the fall...