Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pecci-Blunt at right full, Al Merck at left full, William Matthews at right half, John Deaver at center half, Anson McCook at left half, George Willetts at right outside, Captain John Calhoun at right inside, John Sawhill at center, Dick Gifford at left inside, and Herky Herskovits at left outside...
...were falling on London, C. Martin Wilbur, curator of Chinese archeology & ethnology at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, called attention to his exhibit of Chinese whistling arrows. They were used by Manchu bodyguards to frighten people off the streets when the emperor rode by. The large, blunt whistle head kept them from being dangerous...
...means dull are Pearson & Allen's trained seals. Outspoken about wealthy industrial fifth columnists was Attorney General Jackson; blunt Lord Lothian adlibbed his eight-minute spot to eleven minutes in discussing Great Britain and the war. Pearson & Allen wind up each show with a rataplan of predictions and inside tips, which they are careful to make different from those in their column. Sample scoops: that Roy Howard was "the one exception" mentioned by the President in speaking of those who agreed to serve in National Defense; that Aluminum Co. of America would sign with the U. S. to produce...
...alien intellectual influences, he remained steadfastly and intelligently native. While most U. S. writers sighed for Europe, he looked resolutely and fondly homeward. He was a cultural nationalist before his contemporaries had thought up the term. And like most pioneers, he was a little too forthright, a little too blunt, a little funny...
...three face-liftings, has operated on a score of movie faces. His is one of the most lucrative branches of surgery. He makes one incision, in front of the ear, one under and behind it, sometimes a third along the hair line at the temples. With a blunt instrument Dr. Shorell peels the skin from the underlying muscles, as though he were paring a peach. In the muscles, loose from age like worn-out elastic bands, he takes a tuck with absorbable catgut. No tissue is cut away. Then Dr. Shorell redrapes the skin over the tightened muscles, snips away...