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...Platz a crude copy of the N.Y. Times electric news sign. The sign was in the British sector but it faced the Russian sector. Hundreds of East Berliners gathered across the Potsdamer-Platz to read unadulterated news. Enraged Communists turned fire hoses on the sign, then tried vainly to blot it out with strong searchlights. East Berliners went right on looking at the news. Sample bulletin: "Chancellor Konrad Adenauer labels Soviet-zone elections a fraud...
...wilful, assertive, defiant, and suspicious attitude toward others was a mark of the delinquents. Another trait characteristic of law-breakers was an emotional explosion on the slightest provocation without regard to results. All these traits were uncovered by use of the Roracharch, or ink-blot, test...
...time membership in the Communist party should not become a lifetime blot on an individual, Schlesinger wrote...
Blinding Twilight. But during the spring and fall, both the sun and the stars often failed them. The sun remained invisible below the horizon for many hours each day, but it gave enough light to blot out the stars. When a weather-watching B-29 started out for the North Pole, a standard mission for Squadron 375, it had to take off during a particular 15-minute period in each 24 hours. If it flew at any other time, it could not get to the pole and back without having to pass through a broad belt of blinding twilight...
...Argentina's liberator, José de San Martin. The entire Peronista propaganda machine swung into action to have Casella expelled. As Minister of Education, and as chairman of the current Year of San Martin celebrations, Ivanissevich was ordered to schedule one hour of speechmaking in the schools to blot out Casella's insult to the liberator...