Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well produce a painful time of testing until elections are held sometime between July and September. For one thing, it is the time of the monsoons, the season for the enemy's annual offensive, when the weather protects him from airpower. U.S. firepower is more than adequate to blunt any major Red drive, but a Vietnamese army embroiled in political maneuvering is less than the best ally. Moreover, fully 50% of the army's officers are Catholic, and already the Catholics are restive over Ky's concessions to the Buddhists. If, in their drive for elections, the Buddhists gain...
...campaign, in which Bosch's chief opponent is Balaguer, is basically one of personalities, but there is a major emotional issue: the charges of Communism against Bosch. Last week sidewalks and walls in Santo Domingo were slathered with orange signs reading "Juan Bosch es comunista." Bosch tried to blunt such charges by taking to the radio in a series of half-hour broadcasts, declaring that "Communism is always totalitarianism...
...Blunt Reply. Even as the Sinologists finished their testimony, Red China's leaders were making the whole subject seem slightly academic. Peking's official press voice, Jenmin Jih Pao, bluntly discarded a recent suggestion by President Johnson that the two countries exchange visits of newsmen, scientists and scholars. Under the headline OLD TUNE, NEW CONSPIRACY, the newspaper called the idea "a sheer daydream." It accused the U.S. of "feigning eagerness to improve Sino-U.S. relations to detract public attention from its deployments for aggression against China...
...blunt and unanimous reversal of Cox, written by Justice Abe Fortas, the Supreme Court ruled that the suspects must be tried under both sections. "Private persons, jointly engaged with state officials in the prohibited action, are acting 'under color' of law," said Fortas. As for the more punitive Section 241: "Its language embraces all of the rights and privileges secured to citizens by all of the Constitution and all of the laws of the U.S." Thus Rainey, Price & Co. must face trial again...
...mouths of a dozen Administration leaders might prove an effective secret weapon," he has written. But while he believes that recent U.S. foreign policy has been based on "reasonable logic," he also feels that it has often been clumsily executed. "The content of great power policy must sometimes be blunt," he says. "Its style should always be burnished...