Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scoop was typical of a style official Washington has ruefully come to know. Betty Beale is nosy, pushy and blunt. She snoops. She pries. Society is scared stiff to be noticed in her column, because mention once too often brings prompt exclusion from the nation's most elegant salons-the White House especially. She behaves like a police reporter, thinks like an editorial writer, and, as a perfectly natural result, she is easily the best society reporter in town-and in the country...
...says his technique "does not stem from any personal bias, but simply out of my unshakable belief in the philosophy of using civilized language for a civil purpose' According to McCord, college fund raisers should "act as though we were an extension of, and not simply a blunt instrument for, our alma mater...
...Normally, the automatic control system is supposed to tilt the capsule into the proper position for firing the retro-rockets-the blunt heat shield end of the capsule pointing 34° above the horizon. But Carpenter felt that the automatic system was working badly; he decided to fly the capsule into the correct position by a combination of the manual and fly-by-wire controls...
...could not do it. Explained a Mercury official: "That thing is wobbling up there, and it's hard as hell to hold it within reasonable tolerances for such a delicate maneuver." When the scheduled instant came for the firing of the retrorockets over California. Carpenter apparently had the blunt end of the capsule pointed about...
...dedication ceremonies for the $3.000.000 Eisenhower Presidential Library in his boyhood home of Abilene, Kans., Dwight Eisenhower had some blunt, plainsman's thoughts for Americans to ponder. Standing before the two-level building, which eventually will hold 20 million documents from his two terms in the White House, Ike wondered aloud: "What has happened to our concept of beauty and decency and morality?" Books and movies are laced with "vulgarity, sensuality, indeed downright filth." People dance "the twist instead of the minuet." Modern paintings look as if they have been "run over by a broken-down tin lizzie loaded...