Word: blanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Safety. As the Dalai Lama and his escort fled by night and hid by day in lamaseries, villages and Khamba encampments, the furious Red Chinese boasted that they had put down the three-day revolt in Lhasa that had served to cover the God-King's escape. Point-blank artillery fire drove diehard lamas from the Norbulingka, summer palace on the city's outskirts. Red infantrymen surged into the vast warrens of the Potala winter palace, rounded up defiant monks in narrow passages and dark rooms where flickering butter lamps made Tibet's grotesque gods and demons...
McCarthy held that because Delany had signed an entry blank he was under obligation to appear. Cleveland officials declared that Delany's "breach of contract" would place him under automatic suspension. Delany defended his withdrawal, saying that he had acted "in good faith." A Shakespeare major in Villanova's graduate school, he gave the pressure of his work as the reason for his action...
...came on a dazzling speed skating exhibition by the all American junior from Quebec, as he took a pass at the Crimson blue line, turned the defense, and skated in alone on Harry Pratt, who had little chance. Pratt had performed superbly, stopping Marquis from point-blank range just five minutes earlier...
Strollers along Manhattan's Madison Avenue last week did a double take at the Contemporaries Gallery windows. There seemed to be blank papers, framed and on show. A closer look from a sharp angle revealed that the papers were actually prints, but made without ink. They were geometrical constellations of straight, raised and interlocking lines, embossed on the paper. On close inspection the lines proved to border geometrical shapes in space, which seemed to keep shifting. These were puzzle pictures by Abstractionist Josef Albers...
Just such a break enabled the Bruins to spoil Harry Pratt's shutout on a breakaway at 11:10 of the third period, although the goalie blocked two shots from point-blank range before the third one counted...