Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles moved on to blunt the newest anti-Dulles campaign: the argument that he is too rigid an anti-Communist to permit a parley with the U.S.S.R. "The truth is quite the contrary," said he. "We do want a summit meeting provided the proper conditions obtain. " The proper conditions: preliminary meetings, held in secret at diplomatic levels, in which the possibilities of real agreements can be explored and in which the sense of urgency of the free world need not be let down. Said Dulles: "There are, I know, many who feel that the cold war could be ended...
...forces on the insistence of Harry Truman, left the U.S. almost totally unprepared for Korea; austere George Marshall, who had to work mightily to pick up Johnson's pieces; able Robert Abercrombie Lovett, who found that even-handed patience was not nearly enough for the Pentagon; and blunt Charles Erwin Wilson, whose experience remains most meaningful of all to Neil McElroy...
...theater, with its blunt visual effects, is less suited to so ticklish a story than fiction would be, and the authors of Miss Isabel are not suited to it at all. After eying a grim but at least genuine theme-that the mother's pathos may complete the daughter's tragedy-they back quickly away from it to trade in sticky pathos for pathos' sake. With such facile props as a small boy, a weird Chinese lady and a blind young Scot, they work up a mild tearjerker seasoned with laughs. But they invoke no tears...
West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was more blunt. His government had studied earlier proposals for a neutral zone, he told a television interviewer, concluded that such a zone would be easily overrun in case of war. Said Adenauer: "An atom-free zone is even more than illogical, it's an illusion...
...prepare public health experts to guard civilians against the health hazards of nuclear radiation. ¶Ultrasound vibrations (TIME, Dec. 2), already available for high-speed painless drilling, were demonstrated to Greater New York dentists as a means of cleaning the teeth. At 26,000 vibrations per second, a blunt, smooth tip on the instrument dislodges accumulations of calculus (tartar), including those below the gumline, where they do the most harm, while a continuous fine jet of lukewarm water washes the debris away. Advantages: to the dentist, speed; to the patient, gentleness, as compared with sharp scrapers, and reduced danger...