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Word: blunting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seek the reunification of Germany "as a neutral factor that can blunt the sharp edge of military bipolarity in Europe . . . I have always doubted the wisdom of the decision to rearm Western Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Prepared Positions | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

...beginning of 1949's "Revolt of the Admirals" (TIME, Oct. 17, 1949 et seq.), no revolt of the generals seemed brewing. One reason: at the top of any U.S. military argument stands a man with a considerable reputation on the subject, Old Soldier Dwight Eisenhower. Another reason: blunt old Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, who greeted the battle of the press leaks with the promise of a personal investigation, and rasped: "They don't have to practice psychological warfare on each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Psychological Warfare | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...novelist bent on discrediting a popular idea may choose to 1) give the reader an intellectual hotfoot, i.e., singe his brain with a better idea, 2) tickle his funnybone with satire, 3) clout him over the head with the blunt instrument of anger. British-born Novelist Geoffrey Wagner belongs to the blunt-instrument school. His mallet of malice falls on psychiatry and especially psychoanalysis, its high priests, practices and pretensions. With scarcely a smidgen of saving humor, but with much righteous wrath, The Dispossessed argues that Freud, Jung, Adler, et al. are bloodletters of the psyche whose theories will eventually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mallet of Malice | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...which was often), a scar under his nose and the three moles on his cheeks stood out from his flushed face. He offended the French by saying that in Paris (which he has never visited) "you cannot walk down a street without being accosted by a woman." Such bluff, blunt indiscretions were at least human−and something new in Soviet foreign relations. But this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE KREMLIN: Courtiers B. & K. | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

...last official acts in Canada, retiring U.S. Ambassador R. Douglas Stuart tackled the thorniest current problem of Canada-U.S. relations: the vague but growing notion that U.S. investment capital is seizing control of the Canadian economy. In a blunt speech last week to the Canadian Club of Vancouver, he spelled out the contribution of foreign investors to Canada's economic expansion and paid his polite disrespects to those who seemed bent on stirring up trouble between good neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Ambassador's Answer | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

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