Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fisk, home from Geneva, summarized the technical aspects of the talks. In nontechnical and blunt terms, AEC Chairman McCone read out Fedorov's attack on the U.S. scientists, whereupon the President's face reddened with anger. Together the President and the committee drew up the toughest diplomatic statement to appear since Khrushchev's visit...
...days of Jack the Ripper. Creeping into the Y.W.C.A. near the Lee Bank Road bus stop, a killer had broken into the room of fresh-faced Stephanie Baird, 29, an unemployed typist who was packing for a Christmas trip to Scotland. He seized one of Stephanie's blunt table knives, hacked and ripped her body, and ended the sadistic orgy, which police claim must have lasted at least 45 minutes, by cutting off her head. He escaped by the window, but for some reason decided to go back into the dun-colored. Victorian building. In a utility room...
...commission last week held its first Washington Conference on Public Deception, attended by representatives of 47 civic, professional and business organizations. FTC Chairman Earl W. Kintner said the commission would go all out to open its voluminous files on "trickery in the marketplace" to public view. "In the blunt language of the street," he said, "the gyp seller depends on the sucker buyer and can't exist without...