Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oblique approach, he says, to avoid the Judaic religious restrictions on graven images. "In flux, one cannot perceive reality, but only a part of it," he says. As a result, his works may not stand alone impressively enough as masterpieces, but they seem a magnificently practical way to transform blank-walled, vast public wastelands and enormous rooms into lively and provocative architectural gardens...
...eyes broke off, and Bette sliced away blindly with a pair of scissors, shearing off my eyelashes. Once I could see, I was able to remove my inch-thick plaster skullcap by crushing it with a pair of pliers and combing out the remains. I had a rather blank expression for several weeks...
...stations, caches of TNT and 40 3.5 rockets. The men of the Big Red One also got 189 Communists in Operation Coco Beach near Ben Cat-150 when a regimental-size force of Reds charged a 1st Division bivouac in the predawn darkness. The 1st fired back at point-blank range with everything it had, including 105-mm. howitzers. Near Tuy Hoa, the 101st Airborne's Operation Harrison has so far accounted for 189 enemy dead...
...disease or mental defect." This was a great deal broader than M'Naghten, said Kaufman, but it created new problems. Deciding whether an act is the "product" of a disease is difficult, perhaps impossible. Moreover, such terms as "mental disease and mental defect" give expert psychiatric witnesses a blank check. "It seems clear that a test which permits all to stand or fall upon the labels or classifications employed by testifying psychiatrists hardly affords the court the opportunity to perform its function of rendering an independent legal and social judgment...
...consistently called for deescalation: "What the U.S. is doing in Viet Nam is playing directly into the hands of Communist China by taking actions that lead to a steadily escalating, more dangerous, conflict." Sulzberger has disagreed: "This is admittedly a dangerous game, an experiment in gradual escalation. Yet the blank refusal of Peking or Hanoi to consider any negotiated settlement eliminates any other alternative save a disastrous withdrawal which we cannot contemplate...