Word: bluntly
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...through these days, and this is Simpson's only virtue. There is no need for the facile theme of having Simpson discover his "manhood" through his experiences--only Simpson feeling immensely pleased with himself at the end of Dirty Story for hitting an armed man from behind with a blunt instrument...
...christen thee Olympic Bravery," cried Christina Onassis, as she smashed a bottle of champagne last October against the blunt bow of the first giant tanker to be delivered to the Onassis fleet since she took over its management after the death of her father, Aristotle Onassis. The 275,000-ton ship, which earlier had undergone successful sea trials, headed from Brest on her maiden voyage on Jan. 24 and ran into a sudden squall. Then the ship's engines inexplicably quit, leaving it to drift in 60-m.p.h. gusts; the 30-man crew dropped two anchors but the anchor...
...writer's activity is rather curiously private and finicking, a matter of exorcism and manufacture rather than a toplofty proclamation; that what he makes is ideally as ambiguous and opaque as life itself; that, to be blunt, the social usefulness of writing matters to him primarily in that it somehow creates a few job opportunities...
With the Faculty absorbed in Cost Consciousness III, this task force could prove to be the prime determinant of whether the proposals of the other task forces can be put into effect. It, to be blunt, is dealing with bucks-and-brains allocation. But the committee has made little headway, with its meetings about every month confined to discussions of what data should collected. The task force has as yet made few or no moves to set up a system for evaluating the relative merit of various ways of allocating teaching resources...
...were not automatically exempt from antitrust laws. The same day the court held that the right of an abortion-referral agency to run informational advertisements is protected by the free-speech guarantee. In a talk to a lawyers' group, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Bruce Wilson spelled out a blunt warning: "An agreement to restrict advertising of legal service could be held to be a violation of the antitrust laws...