Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mitigating influence may blunt the draft's damage. "We'd been seriously thinking of reducing the size of GSAS anyway," says Sisson. A committee on the "future of the Graduate School" is considering, among other matters, such a reduction...
...embassy supposedly, according to the papers, has shown some disturbance. But let's be absolutely blunt and clear. The American forces in Vietnam can do what they want to do. And when they're interested enough in getting something done they get it done. If these men remain in prison or are shot, it's with the complicity of American forces...
...Bulletin staff, which includes Miss Theeman and Schwartz, also printed blunt editorials criticizing the Council, under whose constitution the Bulletin is published...
...hard-working an any activity. Morse will be 68; Duncan, 48. Morse's under-dog position is ascribed to a number of factors, especially his position on Vietnam, his efforts to curb certain recent national strikes, his endorsement of Hatfield against Duncan in 1966, and his frank, sometimes blunt statements about a variety of matters...
George Romney may not be a hotshot bowler, but he is no quitter. To knock down all ten duckpins at an alley at Franklin, N.H., he took 34 balls. Pursuing his presidential hopes, Romney is proving every whit as persistent. In a valiant effort to blunt the 3-to-l edge enjoyed by Richard Nixon in the Granite State's March 12th Republican primary, Romney last week wound up his first five days of campaigning with 11,826 hands shaken and a firm belief that reports of his imminent political death are premature...