Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daniel J. Hayes, chairman of the Council's special committee on the Yards, opposed the motion on the grounds that it would give the Library a "blank check" to take the entire 12 acres...
...announced operación libre to liberate the city. The army garrison at San Cristóbal rallied to his side; the navy joined in, lobbed 3-in. shells at the palace. Air force planes made repeated strafing runs. Then across the river rumbled the tanks, firing almost point-blank into rebel Ciudad Nueva...
Dave Benjamin is suffering from a back ailment, Clive Kileff is hobbled by a weak ankle, Dick Appleby has a cold, and Mike Tarre has a foot injury, but the Harvard tennis team will probably blank Amherst today anyway...
...Fulbright of Arkansas to split the $3.38 billion foreign-aid package into separate economic and military bills-a tactic by which he hoped to pare away more easily at the military portion. But the committee also rejected a request by President Johnson for authority to engage in blank-check military-assistance spending in Viet Nam. The committee softened the blow by increasing the President's contingency fund, designed to meet unforeseen cold-war crises anywhere, to $100 million, twice the amount requested...
...only flaw was the chorus. Most of them simply were not very good dancers. And their facial expressions were ludicrous. Lack of blank expressions, I am told, is one of the factors that distinguish jazz dancing from modern dancing. In The Comedy, facial expression was ably used as a means of communication. But in an American in Paris the pasted on smiles of most of the dancers made them look like a night club chorus line. The chorus was ably used, however, in the travel and farewell scenes, where they convincingly represented inanimate objects, like trains and waves...