Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BLUNT Republican--Missouri 7th Aided by a war chest nearly 10 times the size of his opponent's, Blunt took 65% of the vote in this staunch G.O.P. district...
Clinton's national security advisers first learned of the Iraqi buildup from spy-satellite photos. Washington immediately sent a blunt message to Iraqi officials at the U.N., saying it would be a "serious mistake" to move against the Kurds, but Saddam Hussein did not heed the warning. On Friday night Tariq Aziz, Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister, announced that a "limited military operation" had been undertaken in response to an appeal from the K.D.P. State Department officials confirmed that in some parts of the city, K.D.P. soldiers fought alongside Iraqi forces, and K.D.P. radio broadcasts also told people to turn...
...also be the most taken for granted. This wasn't so back in the 1950s when Jasper Johns altered the course of American painting--Abstract Expressionism had been king-- with a series of bright, bold pictures of flags as well as targets and numerals. The works were blunt and direct, with no emotional charge. Johns never got into Pop, but those artists borrowed from him, as did Conceptualists and Minimalists. From Oct. 20 to Jan. 21, New York's Museum of Modern Art will present a retrospective of this idiosyncratic master...
That is well and good as long as it avoids blunt coercion: If you won't follow us, we'll punish you. A heavy hand can galvanize reluctant countries to adopt tougher measures, but when the efficacy and price of the policy are so suspect, it may also produce deep resentment from vitally important friends. At a recent conference in Europe two nato ambassadors smarting from the pressure accused the U.S. of "political gangsterism." What American officials call leadership, many of America's friends around the world call bullying...
...good thing, too, because if I had been in full command of my faculties when he asked "How many of you tend to be the first to decide what to order when you go out to a restaurant?," I think I would have thrown something blunt and heavy at his head. Affirmative answers to those two questions plus the fact that both of my parents are lawyers was enough to have me booted off the panel. Of course, I can't be sure why I was dismissed, because under the "peremptory challenge" rule, lawyers can simply...