Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intent of Artzybasheff to convey the image of a man with a sick mind, he has succeeded admirably. The smirk, the dead color, the vacant eyes-he has painted a most penetrating portrait of Lee Oswald...
These plans go contrary to Lyndon's earlier statement that he would not leave the U.S. while the vice-presidency was still vacant, but he sees no reason why he should not travel to Europe between Election Day and the Jan. 20 inaugural, even though the question of succession would still be murky...
...invocation of Lincoln by an introductory speaker brought cheers from the crowd but could not bring the Senator's vacant eyes off the shoetops of the person next to him. And before he was four minutes into his demand for "law and order in this nation," he betrayed his ennui, one might say world sadness; the teleprompter stopped, so did Goldwater, and for one long moment his eyes went up and back into his mind, slowly searching for the key phrase which would unleash a mindless string of sentences to sustain him until he could switch back to the safety...
...Houston last week, helicopters swooped low over bayous to lay thick mists of insecticide, and fire engines raced from block to block to spray chemicals in vacant lots. Citizens lined up to receive free handouts of bug-killing Malathion, and even kids at play carried spray guns to squirt at anything that flew...
...RISE OF KHRUSHCHEV (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). NBC's 1963 White Paper on Nikita-the-Bold's ascent to the throne left vacant by Stalin. Chet-the-Huntley narrates. Repeat...