Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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with any "superiority" realistically attainable, the blunt, nescapable fact remains that the Soviet Union could still effectively destroy the United States, even after absorbing the full weight of an American first strike...
Steel stirred up the trouble by writing an article entitled Nine Men in Black Who Think White, a blunt attack on the U.S. Supreme Court that appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. These days, the court is criticized most often as excessively libertarian; Steel took an opposite tack. He charged the court with maintaining the status quo and striking down only "overtly obnoxious" discrimination...
Furthermore, it is important at this point to be blunt and honest about what we mean by "reason" and pragmatism. If your definition of them somehow extends a blanket approval to current status-quo foreign policy, to the "responsibility of power," and to anti-communist assumptions, then we are not talking about the same animal. For me, reason and rationality are useful intellectual tools for uncovering the truth and for thinking effectively. Reason has never been for me an end-all, be-all sort of thing: when rationality and pragmatism gain too iron a hold over my life, then...
...missile system with a massive ABM system of its own, it would fall again into the "action-reaction phenomenon," he contends. The Johnson Administration obviously agrees; the Pentagon now plans to build only the "thin" anti-Chinese defense ABM screen that McNamara proposed (TIME, July 5). He adds: "The blunt fact remains that if we had had more accurate in formation [in 1961] about planned Soviet strategic forces, we simply would not have needed to build as large a nuclear arsenal as we have today...
Compromise. David proselytizes at campaign rallies where he and Julie appear, but he has learned to speak briefly. "Julie gives me advice," he says, and in fact she can sometimes be blunt. "If she doesn't like the emphasis of the speech," David smiles, "she'll say so. Usually, I'm stunned for a little while, then I'll come around and we work out a compromise...