Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ability, then, to predict which students are capable of college work is essential; now, Bender points out, "We have very blunt instruments, indeed, for prediction...
...President's weekly news conference asked: Did Ike think there were any grounds for Senate Majority Leader William Knowland's statement that peaceful coexistence was a Trojan horse that would lull the U.S. into false security, to be followed by disaster? The President had a blunt rebuke for Knowland. Under the Constitution, Ike said, he and the Secretary of State were responsible for the conduct of foreign affairs. And neither of them, Ike added, had any tendency to take dangerous situations for granted...
...Blunt & Plain. Addressing his own constituents at Woodford, Essex, Sir Winston was in the midst of a routine speech defending German rearmament and reminding them that he was the first to warn that the West needed Germany on its side against Russian aggression. "Even before the war had ended," he went on, "and while the Germans were surrendering by hundreds of thousands, I telegraphed to Lord Montgomery, directing him to be careful in collecting the German arms, to stack them so that they could easily be issued again to the German soldiers whom we should have to work with...
America has too often tried to dictate blunt and final solutions to the problems of free Asia. In a period of "competitive coexistence," changing events demand a foreign policy that is flexible in application as well as firm in its goal--a free and democratic Far East. President Eisenhower last week indicated a flexible approach that is particularly reassuring...
Such other blunt moral precepts as "Don't get drunk" or "Keep your wits about you," added to several poems, suggest the testy future schoolmaster. But in one impious song of fraternal friction, there is a glimpse of the irreverence that shocked many a later-Victorian reader...