Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retainers, to placate her custodians, to reward her principals, to reward the Superintendent himself for his steadfast dedication to the morbid status quo for which she and he equally stand. All evidence, all confirmation of the inferior status of the ghetto schools has geen ignored, denied, refuted. Even the blunt fact of racial segregation, known well to anyone in the schools dealing with normal vision, went for many years unadmitted and was repeatedly denied...
Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler was as blunt as he was gloomy. Failure to enact a 10% income tax surcharge, he told Congress last week, would leave the U.S. with "an economy in shambles." Without higher taxes, insisted Fowler, the nation faces "the biggest deficit since World War II, an overheated economy and spiraling inflation, sky-high interest rates and tight money for all borrowers...
...salute. Iran's Shahanshah (King of Kings), His Imperial Majesty Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, was properly impressed by the pomp, but his visit to Washington last week was no pleasure trip. At the very first opportunity he and his old friend Lyndon Johnson got down to some blunt business...
...largely Ibo tribesmen, Nigerians behind the front in Lagos retaliated by beating and killing any Ibos who were still living in their capital. "The short, surgical police action" with which Gowon promised to put down the revolt, said Nigeria's leading playwright, Wole Soyinka, "is being conducted with blunt and unsterile scalpels...
Allis-Chalmers, for its part, thought it might teach Ling a thing or two. Within 48 hours, its board replied with a blunt rejection of the L-T-V offer, announced that "shareholders will be far better served" by a possible merger in the works with General Dynamics. Ling, back in Dallas by now, was unfazed. He merely uncorked "Plan B"-a new offer to buy all of the stock for a mix of cash plus two classes of L-T-V shares worth, by LTV's estimate, around $55 per share of Allis-Chalmers' common. Moreover...