Word: blunderbuss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well, where did this hysteria come from? It was true that Harry Truman could hardly be blamed for Senator Bourke Hickenlooper's wild journey through the Atomic Energy Commission files with blunderbuss and loaded innuendo. Nor could he be blamed for the House Un-American Activities Committee's crass demand for a list of textbooks from 107 colleges (which Mr. Truman dismissed with an approving reference to a Washington Post cartoon...
What happened between epidemics? Could the virus that caused the flu have changed, while the vaccine did not? The researchers recommended development of a vaccine with wide enough range to hit, blunderbuss fashion, any flu virus that may turn...
Deer hunters blunderbuss their way through the woods these days bagging an occasional stag, a whiskey flask, and if lucky, a good-natured game warden. But now that athletics have moved indoors, the green felt of the amateur croupier slowly substitutes for the paler verdure of the gridiron, and cards again become the preoccupation of informal undergraduate sports...
...foot, sandy-haired Robert Fiske Bradford, 41, ninth direct descendant of old Governor William Bradford, the Mayflower Pilgrim who governed Massachusetts for 30 one-year terms with a blunderbuss in one hand and a prayerbook in the other. Young Bradford is the kind of Harvard graduate who still sculls on the Charles twice a week, and repairs to a Maine cottage every summer with his blueblood wife and four children. But he also knows when to call a tomahto a tomayto, and he speaks with some of the oratorical grandeur of John L. Lewis; with the same effective trick...
...milk. Congress may not take away the powers he has assumed −a two-thirds vote will be needed. But by simple majority vote, they may well reduce those powers. Already the Farm Bloc's Jesse P. Wolcott, Republican, of Port Huron, Mich., was loading up a blunderbuss to blow holes in price control...