Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peace, the troop increases continue with no end in sight; and, most serious of all, while this country professes a desire to come to the conference table, the President tactlessly declares that the United States will never unilaterally halt the bombings of the North--thus damaging, in one brief, blunt moment the preconditions needed for negotiations...
...presumably because it had just passed through the President's neck. Also, the injury in Connally's wrist was such, said the doctor who treated him, that Exhibit 399 had apparently begun to tumble end over end when it emerged from his chest and that it crashed blunt-end first into his wrist. There was some damage on the bullet's flat...
...beaten the young wife he had met and married in December 1964, during their Peace Corps training in the U.S. The assistant medical officer at the local hospital, who had performed the autopsy on Peverley Dennett Kinsey, also testified that she had been beaten about the head by something blunt, like an iron bar. There was an eyewitness, an African farmer who had seen the girl struggling to defend herself. The farmer had summoned his neighbors, and when Kinsey came down from the hill, the Africans attacked him with clubs...
...Dockeray, a pathologist who appeared for the defense, told the court that Peverley's head wounds were so severe that a "colossal force" must have been used. In his opinion, the multiple fractures were far more consistent with a 20-ft. plunge than with blows by a blunt instrument...
...Gaulle, the message was unusually blunt, if characteristically unhelpful. U.S. intervention in Viet Nam, he said, had rekindled war in Southeast Asia, and threatened world war. What America should do is withdraw from the battlefield now with honor, "an act of renouncing," he said, that would not "injure [the U.S.'s] pride, interfere with its ideals, or prejudice its interests." After all, France did the same thing in Algeria, he pointed out -but failed to mention that the Algerian war involved no alien aggression like Hanoi's. The U.S. would be all the more advised to quit Viet...