Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Several reporters were arrested and deported; cameras were seized and film was confiscated. Photographers' exposed negatives flown out of Angola were delayed in Lisbon long enough to destroy the undeveloped pictures-possibly with X rays or fluoroscopes. When the film reached home offices and was developed, it was blank. At week's end the jittery Portuguese reported beating off another assault on a Luanda prison and killing seven of the attackers...
Eager though he was to give his Cabinet a bipartisan look, President Kennedy made sure that his prospective Republican selections did not intend to use their secretarial posts as steppingstones to future political advancement-particularly as Republicans running against Democrats. Kennedy point-blank asked Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon whether he still had hopes of running for either Governor or Senator of New Jersey, got assurance that Dillon was willing to sacrifice his personal political ambitions. Until he selected Republican Dillon and Independent Bob McNamara for the New Frontier, Kennedy thought seriously about retaining Eisenhower Appointee Thomas Gates as Defense Secretary...
Throughout the centuries, artists have used models in assorted ways, but no one has ever used them in quite the manner of Parisian Painter Yves Klein. He has his nude models smear themselves with paint, then lets them hurl themselves at a blank canvas while he shouts directions from a stepladder. By such tricks, Klein has become at 32 the fad of gallery-going France, and his prices have risen fourfold in the past two years. Last week he invaded West Germany with an eyebrow-raising exhibit in the textile town of Krefeld, twelve miles northwest of Düsseldorf...
...party, Annie pushed him toward the mob of people and shrieked, "Look, gang. It's a Hahvuhd man." Trying to pull it off, Wellington affected a graceful bow, but he received only blank stares from the assemblage. Wellington began to feel uneasy, and looked around the room for Eugenie. She was talking animatedly to two large male specimens who seemed to keep their eyes fixed on the region between her chin and waist...
...exact opposite might prove to be true. The Anglican and the Dutch Reformed Churches find themselves drawn together in mutual concern, as they have not been since Anglican Archbishop Joost de Blank of Capetown threatened to resign from the World Council of Churches if the Dutch Reformed Churches did not mend their racial ways. At the close of the World Council consultation, Archbishop de Blank rose and begged forgiveness from the Dutch Reformed Church men for any hurt he might previously have caused in his impassioned campaigning. Promptly and warmly they forgave him. Says Alan Paton: "The archbishop...