Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Juan, Puerto Rico. Behind the doors Dulles provided some classified details to back up the most serious proposal before the annual Governors' conference: U.S. Governors should take the lead in getting their citizens to build nuclear-fallout bomb shelters, since a nationwide system of private shelters would blunt the effectiveness of nuclear blackmail, would save millions of lives and ensure the survival of the U.S. itself in case of nuclear attack...
Kings Must Please. Mademoiselle led a life of rueful anticlimax. In a setting where devious femininity was an accepted tactic, Mademoiselle was a blunt, soldierly Amazon famed for her huge nose. Obviously destined for a European throne, she rejected princes and kings who proposed to her or were proposed for her-Charles II of England, Alfonso VI of Portugal, Philip IV of Spain. With an annual income of nearly $1,000,000, she was the richest princess in Europe; yet the man who raided her fortune the most shamelessly was her own weak-spined father, the Duke of Orleans...
...black-which has influenced painters from Georges de La Tour to the abstract-expressionist Mathieu. It lifts realism to an exalted plane by making the figure a light in darkness, as Rembrandt was later to do. And finally, it offers deep insight into St. Jerome, whose devout, blunt, passionate nature appealed strongly to Caravaggio...
Last week the President, as expected, refused to buy. "To my disappointment," he wrote in a blunt veto message,* "the Congress has presented me with a bill so excessive in the spending it proposes, and so defective in other respects, that it would do far more damage than good." Specific objections: an "excessive" $900 million for urban-renewal outlays coupled with a cut in the share borne by local governments, a brand-new direct loan scheme to build homes for the aged, subsidized loans to build college classrooms, looser requirements on certain classes of FHA loans. In sum, the bill...
...captain. He followed that up by publicly warning the Air Line Pilots Association that pilots are to stay in their cockpits with their belts fastened instead of gladhanding with the public. When the ALPA attacked this enforcement as a "childish Gestapo program," Quesada fired back a blunt answer: Obey the rules or take the matter to court. Last week Quesada tightened up more. He took steps to ban commercial pilots over 55 from flying jet planes in the future, ground pilots 60 or older...