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Word: blunting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week after 36 years of service: the Navy's most decorated (Medal of Honor, D.S.C., five . Silver Stars, three Purple Hearts, etc.) medic, Rear Admiral Joel Thompson Boone, 61, medical adviser to Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. Retired after 40 years: Lieut. General Clarence R. Huebner, 62, blunt commander of the 1st Division, former commanding general, U.S. Army in Europe, who started his Army career as a private. The Air Force granted a retirement request from Major General Orvil A. Anderson, 55, relieved as commandant of the Air War College, after an interview in which he proposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Footloose | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...conferences in the Kremlin during those August days in 1942 were sharp and exhausting. Winston Churchill's mission was to explain to Stalin why the cross-Channel invasion would have to be delayed. By turns Stalin was truculent, sardonic, accusing; Churchill direct, blunt, vehement. At last the sessions ended in common understanding, if not complete agreement, and Stalin suggested a "few drinks" in his apartment in the Kremlin. Certainly, said Winston Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Central Figure | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

Ending nine years of Government service, blunt, hard-driving Stantori Griggis, 63, resigned last week as U.S. ambassador to Argentina in order to enjoy a "sabbatical period of rest and study." In his 14 months in Argentina, Griffis had concentrated mainly on improving U.S.-Argentine trade relations. At week's end, Washington had not announced a successor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Rest & Study | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

Like any other college, Yale, which already last year suffered a deficit, would encounter a temporary drop in enrollment if a full scale draft program went into effect. It has been CODAM's assignment to devise plans which would blunt the ill effects of a draft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Gets Ready In Case 'Conflict' Turns Into War | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

...High Commissioner John J. McCloy felt last week that it was time for Americans to say a word or two. In the High Commission's German-language Neue Zeitung appeared a blunt statement of the High Commission's views. It was addressed both to the Germans and the intransigent French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Not Half Measures | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

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