Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blunt fact that came out of last week's hearings was that the farm subsidy scandal has long since ceased to be a problem to be settled by so-called farm experts. It is a $7 billion drain on the national treasury in a day when the Administration is scratching for money to buy missiles. Whether the Agriculture Secretary's name is Brannan or Benson -or Moses-the farm subsidy problem has become an ever-growing national problem with a direct effect on the national welfare...
...There are still too many people who want work and can't find a job," said Labor Secretary James Mitchell in a blunt talk last week to civic leaders in the industrial town of Granite City, 111. Mitchell is keenly aware that production has bounced back from the recession faster than employment. Result: highest January unemployment (4,724,000) since World War II's start, including 9.3% of the work force jobless in the most densely industrial state, New Jersey...
...Plateau. The Administration's answer is a plain, firm no. With its primary force of nuclear-armed bombers and fighter-bombers, plus its soon-to-come secondary force of offensive missiles, the U.S. can already, in the blunt words of a high Pentagon official, "destroy everything." The problem is not to increase that overwhelming destructive power ("overkill" in Pentagonese), but to keep modernizing the means of delivery so as to stay ahead of Soviet defense capabilities. As newer means of delivering nuclear punch are "phased in"-so runs Administration thinking-older means can be "phased out." Total destructive power...
Though Dutch newspapers greeted the U.S.I.A. statement with blunt disbelief, Saris began having his doubts. Was this or was this not a question of race discrimination? he wired the local N.A.A.C.P. "Positively race discrimination," came the reply. "Thank you," Saris wired back. "We will roll on." A Dutch Communist paper tried to get in on the act too. Snapped Saris: "This is a case between two good neighbors living in the same street. The neighbor on the other side of the street has nothing to do with it. Go to your own neighbor, the Soviet Union, and mind your...
...Daughter of Darkness) and back to Manhattan for TV (Cradle Song and The Letter). Between assignments she lives with husband Denis O'Dea, a dental student turned actor, and their ten-year-old son in a four-story Georgian house in Dublin. The blunt matter-of-factness she displayed as Maggie Wylie last week belongs in large measure to Siobhan McKenna. Says she: "I'm a party girl, but if I have a hangover, I take nothing for it; I want to know how hung over I am." Her forthright opinions are famed among her friends. Some samples...