Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less power than expected, the capsule still blazed into the atmosphere at nearly 19,000 m.p.h. and a temperature of 4,000°, fastest and hottest yet for any returning spacecraft. To protect the capsule, a new cone-shaped heat shield completely enveloped Apollo instead of guarding only the blunt end. It came through as expected, seared but intact. And three huge parachutes gently dropped Apollo into the Atlantic about 40 miles from its target ship, the U.S.S. Boxer...
Until last Sunday, M.I.T. maintained strict silence about the possibility that the proposed Inner Belt Highway might intrude upon the fringe of the Institute's campus. But there was plenty of speculation. "Oh, I'd guess they're disturbed," said the cautious. "Let's face it," said the more blunt, "they'll pull every string they can, including LBJ, to keep the Inner Belt...
...Fronts. In Washington, where Johnson's peace offensive helped to blunt the urgent demands of the war, the Administration's present attitude is known as "the new realism." It has crystallized as a blend of idealism and self-interest based on the acknowledgment that the military war cannot be won in a vacuum, that it will only be successful to the extent that it helps liberate the Vietnamese from poverty, ignorance and exploitation. As the President said in welcoming Saigon's leaders to Honolulu: "We are here to talk especially of the works of peace. We will...
...blunt and candid American whose size and manner might suggest a foot ball coach last week won election as general secretary of the World Council of Churches, the unity-seeking organization to which 214 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox bodies belong. Meeting at their new headquarters in Geneva, members of the World Council's central committee chose the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake (TIME cover, May 26, 1961), stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Church, to succeed Willem Visser 't Hooft, council chief since it was founded...
...that broad French farce means a farce about broads in France. Curtis, faced by a crisis when a new line of jets with extra thrust brings all his airchicks to earth at once, sweats over a role that only suavity could save. He inevitably brings to mind the rather blunt question that one might ask about a fortyish satyr-about-town: not how he does it, but why. As a colleague who drops by to ogle Curtis' girls, Jerry Lewis gives, for him, an unusually restrained performance. Parents who mistake Boeing Boeing for a routine Jerry Lewis kid comedy...