Word: blunter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unregulated rates, he said, would cause brokers to switch a good deal of trading from the exchange floor to their offices, creating splintered markets in which ordinary investors would have trouble buying or selling at fair prices. Chairman Gustave L. Levy of the N.Y.S.E. board of governors was even blunter. Justice's proposal, he said, would convert the Big Board into a mere "quotation bureau with limited activity." The reason is that many large firms, including Goldman, Sachs & Co., of which Levy is a senior partner, would be likely to quit the exchange altogether...
Barthelme uses a somewhat blunter instrument in Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning, a character study of the politician composed of paragraphs and fragments of popular journalism. Press cliches and pseudo quotes from the candidate are alternated until Kennedy himself seems little more than a collage of newsprint. The story is an exhilarating experiment in the dynamics of hero-making, though its effectiveness depends too obviously on which way the reader's political bias leans...
...California, have discovered another source of supply. Instead of searching out and buying an old VW, they just steal one off the streets-with deplorable impunity. The angry owner of a missing blue beetle would never recognize his car as it whines by him on a beach-shorter, blunter and tangerine...
Decent Liberal. Some eloquent and sympathetic passages from the report that were incorporated into President Johnson's famous Howard University address in June 1965, won universal applause. But in the weeks that followed, civil rights leaders became increasingly disturbed by blunter items from the report that leaked into newspapers and magazines. Many of the stories emphasized the report's sensational findings about the family, often overlooking Moynihan's analysis of the causes, notably centuries of discrimination and economic deprivation...
...blunter response was offered by Conservative William F. Buckley Jr., on a visit to Saigon, when asked whether the U.S. should extend the Tet truce...