Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this determined attitude. For 18 years he had turned out winning Amherst teams, and held a secure position there as athletic director, as well as football coach. When sportswriters asked him why he left, he retorted characteristically, "Because I'm a football coach." Motivated by a philosophy as blunt and powerful as his personality--"block, tackle, and run"--he and his excellent staff have developed a Crimson eleven which today can reaffirm that "We are a football team...
...tail of the British lion, whether by asking for independence or more economic support. The most persistent of recent irritations comes from the strategically located island of Cyprus, rising from the Mediterranean within gunshot of Turkey. The Cypriots have pleaded for independence, but the British answer has been as blunt and undignified as a punch in the nose...
...time around the '20s, on a western farm during a drought. The play starts off, like Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, with the efforts of a plain girl's father and brothers to find her a husband. Lizzie is all the wrong things-uncoy, intelligent, blunt; failure unnerves her; and she is bleakly staring spinsterhood in the face when a posturing, flamboyant young con man (Darren McGavin) blusters in, swearing that for $100 he can bring rain. With the money in his jeans, he spouts philosophy, poetizes, woos the girl, teaches her to have faith...
...Blunt Hint. Before a military court of inquiry, Dides at first stuck to his refusal to reveal his source. But after a second grilling, he revealed that he got the papers from a shady little Tunisian named André Baranès, a fellow-traveling journalist. As Dides described him, Baranes played the doubly devious game of passing government secrets to the Reds and Red secrets to Dides. Where did Baranes get the documents , he handed over to Dides? "A policeman." said Dides "doesn't ask his agents where they get things." Baranes,however, could not be found...
...opening show was starkly simple in plot: after seven years of marriage, a woman finally becomes pregnant only to learn that she must die of leukemia, perhaps even before the baby is born. Blunt-featured Richard Boone carried authority as the doctor who fights to keep the mother alive until childbirth, and the delivery-room scenes were as sensational and convincing as anything yet seen on TV. Beverly Garland heartbreakingly suggested the courage and despair of the doomed wife, while Lee Marvin did remarkably well with the necessarily skimped role of the husband...