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Only this time, as we hear the names of those children killed in the Holocaust, their images, too, are blacked out, Anne’s among them.

"You would get there at about half past eight at night. The place was blacked out, the music was brilliant," he said.

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In another incident in 1989, he blacked out in a drug haze and nearly strangled her, landing him an attempted murder charge.

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But entire pages of the department’s “use of force” report are blacked out, leaving Vanessa and members of the Civilian Oversight Commission wondering what details are being kept secret.

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He told the operator he had been "trying to muster up the courage to phone" and that he had "totally blacked out through the thing".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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