Word: bland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover up the operation by assuring U.S. Ambassador Foy D. Kohler during a relaxed,three-hour talk that the arms going to Cuba were purely defensive. Two days later, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko showed up in the White House with the same soothing message. But all was not bland during Gromyko's 2½-hour visit. Noting that he knew Kennedy appreciated frank talk, Gromyko declared that U.S. stubbornness had "compelled" Russia to plan to settle the Berlin crisis unilaterally after the Nov. 6 elections...
...Harry Howell, and Ron, Thomson will again bulwark Weiland's tight defensive zone, and the success of many of the games will depend on them. Wood will be guarding the Crimson nets, but he is going to have a tough time filling the shoes of last year's Bob Bland...
...with the powerful Clarkson sextet came early in the season. Sloppy passing and poor defensive play gave the Blue and Gold some very crucial breaks, and the Knights controlled the puck for most of the game, scoring five goals to the Crimson's three. Only superb goal-tending by Bland prevented a complete rout...
Kennedy wasn't talking about foreign policy. But Ike, who used to be bland about it, was now speaking out in partisan terms. Last week he bustled about in New England, and in Kennedy's own Boston he scathingly denounced the Administration's record overseas as "too sad to talk about...
Political analysts just love Connecticut. They think of it as a sort of microcosm, if only because it has a little bit of everything: dreary industrial cities, picturesque towns and superb suburbia. It has a certain amount of agriculture-if tough turkeys, and apples used mostly for bland cider, can be counted. It has roughly 360,000 registered Democrats, 360,000 registered Republicans and 600,000 independents-and the analysts adore independents. Connecticut is small but heavily populated: at its widest stretch, it is less than 100 miles across; within its modest boundaries live some 2,500,000 people...