Word: blunter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expertise. But Navasky, himself a Yale Law School graduate who taught legal research before becoming a journalist, argues that they represented "the code of Ivy League gentlemen." They revered genteel negotiation and the separation of powers even when the situation-as in dealing with Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett-demanded blunter instruments. In the end, Kennedy's ranking aides were more hindrance than help in bringing innovation to the pursuit of justice...
...blunter: a soldier must disobey an order that "a man of ordinary sense and understanding would know to be illegal...
...mining on public lands can only benefit the few at the expense of the many. Says former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall: "The report is a long labor that leaves you right back where you started from." Executive Director Thomas L. Kimball of the National Wildlife Federation is even blunter. "In 1930," he says, "such recommendations would have been unacceptable. In 1970, they are incredible...