Word: blankness
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When you walk into Ticknor, one of the two officials (presumably associated with FAS Donor Relations) hands you three pieces of paper after carefully marking down your attendance; one sheet has information about your particular donor, the second has example thank-you notes, and the last is blank, scrap. Then they motion to the boxes full of cards and envelopes and the boxes of pizza. Take one, take one, they say about both...
...best yet from Peter Hessler, whose two earlier books, River Town (2001) and Oracle Bones (2006), were exemplary forays into the genre. Country Driving begins with the author recounting his quixotic efforts to follow the Great Wall by car, depending on flawed maps that sometimes left large sections blank (for political reasons) and often seemed hopelessly out of date right after being issued (due to how fast new thoroughfares are being built). The next section describes Hessler's experiences living in a north China village that is transformed by the construction of a new road that links it to Beijing...
...Well, I was very specific in a couple of my meetings in looking at them point blank and saying, 'Haqqani and his people are killing my troops. I've got a problem with that...
Victoria Vazquez’s Daisy is passable and unmemorable. Vazquez never quite embodies the calculated superficiality of Daisy, and instead appears artificially blank. Her attempt to capture the manipulative schoolgirl tendencies that make Daisy so dangerous and so repulsive seems immature...
...first with a power play goal from forward Ben Smith. Eagles forward Brian Gibbons collected the rebound of Steven Whitney’s attempt at goal and took it behind the goal. Gibbons snuck the puck to Smith, who powered the puck into the net from point-blank range...