Word: pointblank
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Middlesboro, Ky., passing a graveyard late at night, Slim Jaggers whirled at a rustling noise, saw a big white shape, whipped out a pistol and fired pointblank. The bullet hit a big white tombstone, knocked off a marble chip which flew into Jaggers' eye, blinded...
Police who swarmed over Northfield's campus last week had no trouble reconstructing the murder-someone lurked on a macadam path outside the study until Headmaster Speer stood up, then fired a shotgun pointblank through the window. But of weapon, killer or motive they could find no trace...
...thoroughgoing Associated Press asked her pointblank...
...desire to have a friendly understanding with France. Germany wants Peace!" Said Mr. Crane, on reaching Paris, "With all the dynamic force for which he is famous, Hitler literally burst out with this assertion. I had not asked him about his attitude toward France. . . . Hitler's gestures and pointblank statements remind me of Theodore Roosevelt." While French editors voiced confidence that Premier Daladier would not walk into the "Hitler trap" of separate negotiation with Germany-a step sure to estrange from France her "Little Entente" allies (Czechoslovakia. Jugoslavia, Rumania) and Poland-shaggy, excitable French Foreign Minister
...that broke because it was not geared to the country." Carl Snyder of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York proposes an annual 4% increase in the issue of credit to keep pace with estimated industrial growth. Author Crowther shares the Sloan and Snyder view and sounds it off pointblank: ''Unemployment and poverty are hardly to be considered as the natural sequences to plenty, yet that is the conclusion we are bound to reach if we adopt the theory of overproduction as a cause for business disaster. These disasters are not . . . business disasters. They are financial...