Word: blunter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other neighbors raised blunter objections: the project would, they said in effect, spoil the neighborhood by bringing in more people, more traffic, and large modern buildings, and perhaps at a later date, even commercial developments...
...very wideband set of sensors for acquiring information, a built-in memory and a computer better than our best machine, and a remarkably versatile capability for action and physical operations." Wernher Von Braun, the father of the German V-2 and a pioneer in the U.S. space effort, is blunter. "The space program is the first time we could keep the cutting edge of science and technology sharp without having a major war," he declares. "Goddammit, does it take another war to get technology up to a higher plateau...
...Henry Bellmon of Oklahoma and William Saxbe of Ohio, had been sent copies. But the three said they had not received them before they left on the trip. Although committee staffs habitually do spadework prior to such tours, the Kennedy staff went further into detail than most and was blunter than it might have been in laying down conclusions and stage directions before the trip even began. Senator Ted Stevens and Representative Howard W. Pollock, Alaska Republicans, stuck with the tour and somewhat blunted the G.O.P. charges against Kennedy. Asked about alleged G.O.P. Policy Committee pressure on him to quit...
Coogan's Bluff, Donald Siegel's second film of 1968 falls just short of Madigan by virtue of less serviceable writing and blunter editing. Nonetheless, anyone willing to bypass an unfortunate reliance on convention gets caught up in a compelling and consequential morality play, honestly acted and extraordinarily well filmed...
...need in the South. Liberals might rosily dream of the day when all little children could grow up together to love and understand each other at integrated schools; and their main objection to segregated schools seems to be that the children aren't growing up to love and understand. Blunter Northerners see no real danger in separate-but-equal schools; just like blacks marry blacks and whites marry whites, they say, people want to be with their own. Why force them together...