Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fire reminds him of the painting In which a shaft of sun rests upon a blank of polished copper; In the mirror's ground the Greek bride floats, Dark in all that brightness, And in that mirror Warm...
...methods of making sure that their luck will be tough are unchanging: economic and physical intimidation; registrars who are chronically unsatisfied with the way a Negro interprets the state constitution or completes a registration blank. A registrar in Forrest County, Miss., found five college graduates illiterate. In Plaquemines Parish, La., the Civil Rights Commission was told that finding the registrar was "like a game of hide and seek." In 13 Southern counties Negroes constitute a majority of the population-and not one vote. In 35 other counties, 3% or less of the qualified Negroes are registered...
...Spaniards cut windows and doors in the blank adobe walls of the first-floor rooms, which the Indians had entered through the ceilings. In the first few weeks they built and consecrated a makeshift church and laid out a plaza in the conventional Spanish fashion. Buildings gradually grew around the plaza. But San Gabriel de Yunque did not thrive. Its settlers were plagued by bedbugs and lice, and their crops were destroyed by field mice. After failing to find gold or other valuable minerals, Oñate left his colony. The capital was moved to Santa Fe, the buildings crumbled...
...week's outdoor epic was Under the Vultures, an old May tale chosen for this year's Karl May Festival. In its ten years, the festival has drawn 800,000 visitors. The cowboy and Indian fans from all over Germany come for the festival, pitch tepees, fire blank pistols, call each other "Callamitty Jane" and, though few Germans can pronounce it, "Billy the Kid." And during the season, Bad Segeberg's best hotel offers "Dakota Weshungle mil Palushka Weshungle" (spiced buffalo meat with brown beans...
...Point-Blank. As the government column inched through town, dozens of men were killed by rebels firing from windows and rooftops. Not until tanks blasted Puerto Cabello's hospital at point-blank range did its rebel defenders give up; students holed up in the high school fought on bitterly. In one classroom, Betancourt's troops found a huge portrait of Fidel Castro. They carried it outside, shredded it with their burp guns, and got on with the bloody, block-by-block fighting...