Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court rarely rebukes individual attorneys. But last year its unanimous, 9-to-0 reversal of the 1956 murder conviction of Cabdriver Lloyd Eldon Miller Jr. carried a blunt reprimand. Miller had been accused of the brutal rape-murder of an eight-year-old girl near Canton, Ill., and the high court was convinced that he did not get a fair trial. It charged Fulton County Prosecutor Blaine Ramsey and his special assistant, Roger Hayes, with deliberately misrepresenting evidence by repeatedly waving a "bloodstained" pair of men's shorts before the jury. "In the context of the revolting crime...
...Dylan succeed in spite of (and not because of) the fact that we will never get to hear them in the stark pulsating flesh. The power of the new music is precisely that it is sometimes able to transform a particular event into a permanent influence--one to blunt the hard edges that each of us carefully cultivates...
...hard-fought civil rights law, but the court's decision made the lengthy congressional argument over that law seem largely academic. The long-ignored Civil Rights Act of 1866, said a majority of seven justices, already did the job; it is an unequivocal call for open housing. In blunt, unmistakable language, it "bars all racial discrimination, private as well as public, in the sale or rental of property...
Unlike his brothers, Bobby never seemed at ease in the Senate. He was blunt where it pays to be euphemistic. He was an activist in a club dedicated to deliberation, and he was impatient with rules and tradition, both of which the Senate venerates. He was a loner. Yet he achieved a good deal simply because he worked longer and harder than most of his colleagues, assembled a better staff, sensed more deeply the nation's abiding problems. He knew that he was the only man in the country, save perhaps the President, who could make headlines with almost...
...lowering their tariff barriers to international trade. As head of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) ever since its creation in 1948, he earned a reputation as a trusted and respected mediator. But when cooperation eluded him, the outspoken Briton's most characteristic tactic was a blunt threat to quit. And often enough, that threat got him what he wanted...