Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ordinated along the line of the Harvard Houses were the requests for larger dining rooms and longer meal hours. Gracious living as Radcliffe now defines it has fallen from favor. Many a Faculty member shuns the Quad at mealtimes, remembering the night he sat transfixed by eight pairs of blank eyes while the girl on his left politely inquired what courses he was teaching this term. Unable to offset the institutional formality, most 'Cliffies would like to abolish it altogether. Once again the sanctioned motive for revision is the desire to entice the Faculty up to Radcliffe. Many 'Cliffies, however...
...with the Communists in a drive against what it called "antistate organizations." More than 3,500 suspects considered to be potential Communists or "leftist hoodlums" were under arrest, and warnings went out to left-wing student groups to keep quiet or else. The censored press was forbidden to use blank spaces or blacked-out splotches that would show that censorship was in effect. The generals and their aides were largely untrained in civil administration, would probably have to turn to the previous civil servants for help. A day after the coup, U.S. economic aid officials in Seoul were back...
...Analysts are interrupting patients more frequently, and instead of trying to act like "a blank screen" are deliberately letting their own personalities influence the patients' progress...
...controlling stock interest in the company? No; didn't own a share. Did he have pals on the board of directors? Not even an acquaintance. Had he pioneered a new industrial process? Couldn't even fix a lawnmower. At last, one reporter asked point-blank how he got the job then. "Oh, that's simple," answered the new president. "A guy in golf spikes stepped on my IBM card...
...cumbersome style, "my Latinizing way of writing English," he attributes to "my classical education." He also confesses, oddly for a historian, that he is "almost entirely ignorant of modern Western discoveries, from the seventeenth century onwards, in the fields of mathematics and physical science. This is indeed a big blank . . . In my knowledge of the non-Hellenic civilizations and the higher religions there are appalling gaps. And my knowledge of the aeons of history before these last 5,000 years is little better than sheer ignorance." And so it goes, deficiencies in anthropology, ignorance of geography, indifference to "economic...