Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policeman reportedly sat back in the booth when Blackmer began talking, so he "was just talking up at a blank window." When the policeman asked where the attack had occurred, Blackmer said, he pointed towards the cemetery. He said that when the policeman asked a second time he replied, "by that god damn church up there...
...spoke, three men rushed down the aisle toward him. Eight feet away, they opened fire. One Negro with a double-barreled sawed-off shotgun blasted Malcolm at point-blank range. "There was what sounded like an explosion," said a dazed woman. "I looked at Malcolm, and there was blood running out of his goatee." Men and women threw themselves to the floor as the gunmen squeezed off at least a score of shots. Thirteen shotgun pellets tore into Malcolm's chest and heart; several slugs from .45-and .38-cal. pistols shattered his thighs and legs. A woman screamed...
...Rupley, 24, California Peace Corpsman stationed in Venezuela since last September; of a bullet wound inflicted when trigger-happy Caracas plainclothes policemen mistook him and three fellow corpsmen for Communist terrorists, shot out the tires on their station wagon when they ignored an order to stop, then fired point-blank when the Americans climbed out with their hands up, hitting Rupley in the heart and critically wounding David Glover, 25, of Grosse He, Mich., in the stomach...
Eddie Zellner was the Crimson offensive star with two goals, both scored during Dartmouth penalties. Kenny Burnes got Harvard's other goal, the one that put the Crimson ahead for good, early in the third period after Dartmouth had drawn blank rate in the second...
...most momentous centuries in the history of the Jewish people would be almost a total blank were it not for the writings of one incredibly durable historian: Flavius Josephus. Only the New Testament and a few other fragments deal with the period 100 B.C.-A.D. 100; yet posterity has not thanked Josephus for his labors. One writer recently accused him of "cowardice, duplicity, treason, arrogance, deviousness, horrifying brutality and foul deception"; and historians have agreed that he was at least a traitor to the Jewish people...