Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trousers to each new recruit-simply because it thought that Marines got six pairs apiece. Not until two years ago did the Army learn that the Marines issued only three pairs -and that many an Army recruit threw at least three of his six pairs away. Faced with this blunt fact, the Army forthwith halved its issue. Said the Hoover Commission: "The military services are far too prodigal with Government funds...
Fairbank and Schwartz, while while they were in fundamental agreement, emphasized the need for caution in crossing the 38th parallel. A blunt march over the line could fire Russian feeling beyond the kindling point, they suggested. Hence the campaign in what is now Northern Korea should be waged only after such a project has received the blessing...
Japan took the big decision in an imperial conference on Sept. 6, 1941: war against the U.S. unless the U.S. backed down on China by early October. The proposal of the supreme command was blunt and final; Hirohito's civilian ministers accepted it. Apparently only Hirohito himself felt called upon to make any further observations. He pulled out a poem that had been written by his grandfather, the Emperor Meiji, and read it aloud...
...With a blunt finger he probed behind the front. "The Soviet Union has repeatedly violated its pledges of international cooperation," he said. "It has destroyed the independence of its neighbors. It has sought to disrupt those countries it could not dominate. It has built up tremendous armed forces far beyond the needs of its own defense . . . Communist imperialism preaches peace but practices aggression...
...admiringly known as "the magnesium monster," and the SACmen are ready to battle anyone who says it isn't the best bomber in the world. When the Navy insisted a year ago that the B-36 could be shot down, Curt LeMay shot back a blunt answer...