Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bullet" press conference. While his leaden language irritated many, it did make clear that a tax rise is the key to continued prosperity and the stability of the dollar. The Senate and House conferees eventually agreed, but -largely as a result of their annoyance at the President's blunt words-only at the $6 billion price the conservatives had demanded. With the stability of the economy at stake, Johnson can hardly refuse to go along, but he cannot take much pleasure in a package that promises to gut some of his fondest domestic programs...
...each Thursday, when he closets himself in his office and works on his weekly column, for which he won the Pulitzer. Although he is a conservative, he has been a consistent opponent of the Viet Nam war; for the past year, he has written about little else. He is blunt-crusty, even-but never rash. As a man who does not hesitate to speak his own mind, he has made it a firm policy to let others speak theirs...
...until recently has been formidably one-sided. "We've found people too occupied with making money and getting another passenger aboard the plane," says O'Connell, "or patching things up till the steering wheel falls off. There hasn't been enough affirmative interest in safety." With blunt language operators and manufacturers have rarely heard before, the agency has indicated that G.M.'s Allison Division was careless in the manufacture of a propeller which tore loose on an airliner that crashed in Ohio last year (dead: 38) and has pointed to managerial sloppiness as the real root...
Degas did not invent the monotype, but he used it and developed it to a far greater extent than any artist before him, and possibly since him. Briefly, it is a process in which greasy ink is applied to a plate and wiped away with rags and/or blunt and sharp instruments (dark field manner), or one in which one draws with the ink on the plate (light field manner). The paper is then run through a press with the plate. But unlike the output of other graphic media, only a few impressions at most are obtainable. Also unlike most other...
...fail to achieve the virility substitute of money, power or meaningful work, they can explode in violence. Not that man has a killer instinct; he simply does not fully realize the effect of pulling a trigger and blowing off another man's head. Modern long-range weapons further blunt his sensibilities. Mussolini's son extolled the bombing of the Ethiopians: "I dropped an aerial torpedo right in the center of a cluster of tribesmen, and the group opened up like a flowering rose. It was most entertaining...