Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Delivering an ex-champion's blunt verdict, Gene Tunney, who won his crown from Jack Dempsey in 1926, called the fight "a terrible hoax," adding that "it's shows like this that are killing boxing." They surely do it no good. In the prefight ballyhoo, everyone had been told to expect a classic which matched Patterson, the swift and stouthearted Good Guy, against Liston, the hulking, oft-arrested...
Fading Fiction. What swayed the Commonwealth Prime Ministers was a blunt 50-minute speech by Harold Macmillan. Though Britain's membership in the Common Market will end special tariff concessions to Commonwealth imports, Macmillan pointed out that these are in any case a fading fiction which Britain can no longer afford; Commonwealth nations-and several have better living standards than Britain-raise ever higher tariff walls against British goods. On the other hand, argued Macmillan, as a member of the European Community, a prosperous Britain will be able to invest in less developed Commonwealth countries and help formulate worldwide...
...successfully from assembling imported Jeep parts to actual manufacturing of cars. The odds were long. One visiting U.S. auto executive, after studying the shed where Jeeps were being assembled at a six-a-day clip and learning that Brazil had no parts suppliers, dismissed the manufacturing project with the blunt comment: "You're nuts...
...Saturday Evening Post (1949-57), whose portfolio of some 8.000 drawings included three that won him Pulitzer prizes (1931, '34, '40); after a long illness; in Manhattan. Duffy insisted that the "best cartoons are against something," caricatured the Ku Klux Klan, Hitler and Communism with such blunt and angry lines that one critic wrote, "If the pen is mightier than the sword, then Duffy's grease pencil is more effective than a well-aimed brick...
...Unlike the lower animals, which live only in the present moment, man is conscious of time, and thus of death. Stoicism and Epicureanism-faiths for the Greco-Roman intellectual elite-accepted death as the final end to life with equanimity. But man generally has rebelled against this kind of blunt pragmatism, instinctively seeking "some state in which he will be secure from the everlasting menace of time's destructive logic." Brandon tacitly admits that he has some trouble juggling his Christian faith and his academic findings. "My findings as a professor lead me to recognize certain things," he says...