Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blunt words and the police cordon were part of a wrangle that began a fortnight ago with the closing of one Church of Christ in northern Italy, and reached a climax last week when the Italian government closed all 22 of them. In three years of missionary work in Roman Catholic Italy, Church of Christ missionaries have made only 450 converts. Some of their followers, after accepting gifts of food and clothing, have gone back to Catholicism. But until the closing, the outlook for more converts still seemed hopeful...
...girl and ends up with a 30 year-old friend of his mother. What Weldy doesn't know is that there is a delicious young sixteen-year old girl (the most popular one in town) who secretly loves him. These are the set-ups, pushed in with a blunt...
...unassuming, generally effective little picture, The Ring has some brisk fight scenes. It also makes a few telling points about intolerance with some blunt sequences, shot in & around actual Los Angeles locations, of discrimination against Mexican-Americans in drive-in restaurants, bars and skating rinks. Lalo Rios as the boy, Rita Moreno as his girl and Gerald Mohr as a prizefight manager play their parts naturally. The Ring is no main bout, but it is a thoroughly satisfactory preliminary...
...House-Senate conference still carrying a House rider which would cut atomic-energy funds in half and seriously restrict construction of new atomic installations. Rising to the attack, Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper, in a surprising burst of stirring and statesmanlike oratory, warned that the rider would blunt the U.S. atomic-energy program at a critical stage. Passionately, he demanded that the bill be sent back to conference for another try at removal of the rider...
...exactly new. The Starfire is a refinement of the F-94; the Dog an improved Sabre jet with its nose redesigned to house additional radar equipment. Neither plane carries guns, only rockets. The Starfire's twenty-four 2.75-in. rockets are tucked away in a ring around its blunt, black, radar-packed nose. In normal flight they are covered by faired-in doors. An instant before the rockets are fired, the doors snap open. They snap shut again in a flash...