Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final vote established in the recount is 16,342 in favor of retaining PR and 15,840 opposed; 1021 ballots were left blank...
...lovers are never given names, and it is easy to complain that they are only blank symbols in a house of mirrors, and that Resnais has asked the audience to give his film meaning where none exists. It is a just complaint against most of the New Wave, but for those willing to make an effort, Hiroshima is the finest of its kind, and a masterpiece in its own right...
...stepping up to the dentist's chair. Voting on 85-year-old Konrad Adenauer's re-election to a fourth term as West Germany's Chancellor, no fewer than 26 of 241 Christian Democrats present showed their distaste for their party leader by dropping blank white cards into the plastic ballot box. When all the ballots were counted, der Alte had squeaked through with only eight more votes than the required majority of 250. Many delegates ostentatiously sat on their hands, and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, who had been cruelly punished by Adenauer for his own feeble...
...next 48 hours the East Germans got reinforcements: more than 70 Soviet medium tanks, which parked unobtrusively in the side streets near the border crossing, as the U.S. made a fourth sortie into the Russian sector. For one night, U.S. and Soviet tanks squared off at the point-blank range of 200 yards, but both sides lumbered off at morning without incident. It was the first time that Russian tanks had appeared in Berlin since they put down the uprising in June 1953. No word of their presence has appeared in the East German press or on the radio...
Both come with individual test sheets, telling you how your particular edition tested at the factory (all of which will probably cause you to nod and smile and look blank, but which has significance just the same. The fact that such tight quality control is kept on these items is re-assuring. And in the case of the ADC models it has been interesting for me to note that every one I've seen lately has greatly exceeded its advertised specifications...