Word: blankness
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...novel Empire of the Sun - and the millions more who saw Steven Spielberg's film version of it - will recognize Ballard's descriptions of the deprivations he suffered at the Lunghua detention camp after the Japanese army overran Shanghai in 1943. They'll recall, too, the blank, dreamlike gaze with which he absorbed the horrors unfolding around him: at the age of 14, he watched as a group of defeated Japanese soldiers, "aware that their own lives would shortly end, and that they were free to do anything they wanted and inflict any pain," casually strangled a Chinese...
...this enormous cache of personal data is evident from some of Interpol's recent actions. In January last year, 11 people presented their Cypriot passports at Monterrey airport in Mexico. The numbers that flashed up on Interpol's database revealed that these documents came from a batch of 850 blank passports stolen in Cyprus; it turned out that the men were Iraqi citizens trying to slip into the U.S. Last April, masked gunmen executed a jewelry heist in Dubai. They left behind DNA samples, which matched those that Interpol had in its database for two Serbian armed robbers...
...steps from the room's front exit. The couple shivered, hoping to evade the gunman's path. "But he was just stepping up the aisles, just shooting people, just like that," Santos says, imitating Kazmierczak's motion with his arms to show how the attacker shot students "at point-blank range...
...Fable Attraction”?DA: I play the sexy unicorn. Her name is Peggy Seuss, but she’s not a Pegasus. She makes that very clear. She has been described as all glitter and tits.RR: Alright, so complete this sentence: David Andersson is all blank and blank.DA: In relation to what?RR: Anything.DA: I mean you could say I’m all fun and fabulousness. Um, I don’t know.RR: That works. So, how long have you been doing Hasty Pudding stuff?DA: This is my third year, and it’s my third...
...from a book of essays trendy in Evangelical circles, Democrats were largely oblivious to the existence of Evangelical culture. At one point during the summer of 2004, Terry McAuliffe was actually at the same event as Warren, and the two were introduced. With a good-natured smile but a blank stare, McAuliffe stuck out his hand. "Nice to meet you, Rick!" the Democratic National Committee chairman said. "And what...