Word: blunting
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Marina lapsed into a coma almost immediately after we had spoken to her. Only 38 hours after, she died of blunt trauma. The police continued with the same story and began to canvass the area to find out if anyone had seen the man following...
Finally, the coroner's report came out: Marina had suffered three skull fractures from a blunt instrument. And the police caught the man who'd been seen following her. He confessed he'd robbed her for fourteen dollars. He needed $45 for a brake...
...imposed after World War II and which restricts the carefully named Self-Defense Forces to the home islands and territorial waters. Still, some of Kaifu's advisers believe the government could send communications and logistics experts, even minesweepers to the crisis zone. Last week, in an effort to blunt the criticism that Japan is wimping out, the Foreign Ministry dispatched a small team of volunteer medics to Saudi Arabia and promised more may follow. Others advocate dispatching combat units under United Nations authority. However, Japanese officials worry that even strictly non-offensive deployments would arouse anxiety among their neighbors...
...campaign trail, Silber has mad a name for himself as the King of Soundbites--cultivating a blunt, outspoken style that has slighted Blacks, Jews, gays, feminists, the elderly and immigrants, among others. This insensitivity to a large portion of the electorate is in itself reason to oppose Silber's candidacy...
...pussycat. Baryshnikov, 42, the pre-eminent male dancer of the 1970s and '80s, defined the great classical ballet roles. Morris, 34, is a brilliant and somewhat unruly postmodern choreographer. Baryshnikov dances "up," every graceful move a dismissal of gravity. Morris, a marvelous performer as well, is blunt and emphatic. Where the one leaps high, the other stamps down, like the folk dancer he was as a teenager...