Word: blots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began to pay off. News of the Navy's unexpected aerial and sea attack on Japan's Marcus Island base was announced in Washington while the attack was still under way. Then, at week's end, came further results. It was announced in Washington that, to blot out the prevalent "armchair war" attitude, Americans at home will get to see heretofore suppressed pictures showing the horrible side of war-the deprivation, danger and suffering the U.S. fighting man endures. One of the first such photos to be released was one to make Americans catch their breaths...
...Japs on Guadalcanal did not give in; they gave out. Said Captain Miles Browning, chief of staff to Admiral William F. Halsey: "It was not a definite surrender. Our flanking forces closed the pincers on the enemy and a blot-out took place. There was no more space for the Japs to occupy...
...Then the Blot rushed in, breathless as usual. Have you not heard, he screamed, those Stanley Steamers all blew up, why should we be different? And the Blot was right as usual, for the Meryman steamobile is no more...
...even as theater is that it's for the most part too shopworn. The bright comedy moments and briefly vivid scenes are swallowed up in the pat speeches, dime-a-dozen situations, stagey gestures, footlight heroics. Playwright Williams has let his memories of a hundred bad plays blot out lis memories...
...right," said the Blot, "and here come the police to shut it off. It's a no good dead burglar alarm; let's go bury...