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Word: blunting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years (metal factory, condensed milk, the Ask Mr. Foster travel agency), grey-haired Francis E. Rogers of New York City went to Britain in 1951 with an American aid mission to spend five years observing British factories. On the eve of his departure for home, he got off a blunt bread-and-butter message to his British hosts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Consumers, Arise! | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...Universities are a part of the workers' and peasants' state and must serve the construction of socialism." In these blunt terms, the East German government defines the functions of the nation's "institutions of higher education." In practice, the definition means that East German universities bar the "nonproductive" (i.e., politically suspect), bourgeois "intelligent sia" in favor of the loyal sons and daughters of the "peasants' and workers' class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Flight of the Intelligentsia | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...calm returned to the auditorium where the nation's attention had focused for three weeks, a blunt but inescapable truth emerged from the proceedings: the Marine Corps, as Puller said, exists only to teach men how to fight, win and survive in the crudest test of all-war-and because war is cruel, preparation for it sometimes has cruel results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Stunning Blow | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

Stepping Down. For the moment at least, the blunt statement effectively ruled out all further cooperation between blacks and whites on the problems of constitutional reform. And for the moment at least, 81-year-old Grogs Grogan was satisfied, as he enjoyed the daily plaudits of his admirers and the company of a bottle of cognac in the bar of the Nairobi hotel which he owns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Grogs & the Yappers | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...nurse and father, as Noonday Ned the Oldtime Fiddler, saws away at the local radio station, Lovey is left to the untender mercies of sour old grandma, who tries zealously to clothe the girl in blue cheesecloth and Christian resignation. But Lovey wields her cross like a blunt instrument, tears up her Braille primer, tongue-lashes sympathetic playmates, flatly turns down the great opportunity of being patronized by the local seed king's family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tomboy Sawyer | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

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