Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...differences have not been buried. The Socialists still agree with De Gaulle's assessment that "the Communists are not a French party" but "an army" that takes its orders from Moscow. Socialist leaders do not miss the fact that French Communists are always evasive when asked point-blank whether they would like to turn France into a Moscow-styled people's democracy...
...could exploit. Backed by Trotsky and the youthful Iosif Stalin, Lenin late in October sent his armed Bolsheviks to take over all the main government buildings in Petrograd. Kerensky's government was besieged in the Winter Palace. When it refused to surrender, the cruiser Aurora fired a warning blank, the palace was stormed, and the Cabinet arrested-save for Kerensky, who managed to escape. The coup d'état was complete in Petrograd; democracy in Russia had been executed by Communist hands...
...Diving Board. And then all at once, in the middle of a smile, she gets that funny blank look in her eyes, as though a light had been switched off inside her head. "She just switches off," says Corin. "It's a very strange thing. She's done it as long as I can remember." But Vanessa has an explanation. "I have a bad habit of not giving much of myself," she says, "of saving myself up for work. To lose oneself in a role?that is what one lives...
...tack on an amendment demanding that the U.S. either declare war or freeze troop levels in the South at 500,000 (nearly 415,000 are already there). Convinced that Clark's rider would be defeated so decisively that the vote would be interpreted by U.S. hawks as a blank check for unlimited escalation, Mansfield performed some fancy legislative footwork. He offered a meaningless substitute amendment calling for a negotiated settlement of the war "that would preserve the honor of the U.S.," thus managed to shelve Clark's embarrassing proposal...
Three minutes later John Parker converted John Cooke's pass out from point blank range. Twelve seconds after that, the score was 5-1, as Herb Wakabayashi's stickhandling following the faceoff set up Serge Boily...