Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressure on the newspapers. Nevertheless, such stories as the debate between Paul Blanshard and Father George H. Dunne at Harvard in February over the political power of the church are virtually ignored (only the Globe printed a story on the debate). Such sacred cows, real or fancied, tend to blunt the nose-for-news of even the best reporters...
...Ohio, 60, his party's policy leader and the Senate's finest legal mind. He is often the catalyst of Senate thinking. His abrasive mind can find the soft spots in an argument or a plan as surely as a dentist's drill. Ragging in debate, blunt to the point of rudeness, honest to the point of indiscretion, he holds his leadership by sheer intellectual prestige. He is a powerful check on any ill-advised experiment; in fact, his more liberal colleagues would be the first to admit that, while fighting them, he has often made their...
...seemed to be a bid for power by Malenkov and the younger men brought forward by the war. The Old Bolsheviks cracked down. The late Andrei Zhdanov, who was then a close rival of Malenkov for advancement in the party hierarchy, saw how to turn Malenkov's blunt words against him. In a ringing call for orthodoxy, intellectual Zhdanov retraced the party line afresh. In the game of Bolshevik parchesi, Malenkov had to move back several spaces...
...detested Mickey Rooney in the past, you'll detest the little guy even more in "The Big Wheel," which is on the same bill as "The Hasty Heart." "The Big Wheel" is about auto racing, and, to be perfectly blunt, it stinks...
Cosmopolitan magazine had a new solution to the problem of what to do about those short, blunt words Ernest Hemingway uses in his latest novel, Across the River and into the Trees, which the magazine is serializing. When Scribner published For Whom the Bell Tolls, the word obscenity was substituted for each bad Hemingway word-e.g., the memorable line, "I obscenity in the milk of your fathers." Cosmopolitan decided to use the word deletion in parentheses. Sample edited Hemingway line: "Every time you shoot now can be the last shot and no stupid (deletion) should be allowed to ruin...