Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rats and Stocks. Wolfkill's account of what happens to free men from a 20th-century society when they fall into the hands of primitive tribesmen just converted to Communism is blunt, jolting and thorough. A man of almost glacial self-control, ex-marine Wolfkilt became the natural leader of the American captives as they fought to preserve not only their lives but their sanity through more than a year of abject misery...
Above the Clouds. Such, then, is the Pauline manner: to blunt the edge of an innovation with traditional safeguards; to give an answer that raises as many questions as it resolves. It is this seeming uncertainty that baffles and angers at least as many people as it pleases...
...function. And getting at the heater itself was out of the question. Located in the adapter section, it was inaccessible to the crew. The astronauts flicked switches off and on again and again, trying somehow to stir the system into life. They maneuvered the spacecraft around so chat its blunt end, which housed the fuel-cell system, would get the full impact of the sun's rays. But the sun was no help. By this time the astronauts had turned off the radar, radio, computer and some of the environment-control systems. They were consuming only 13 amperes...
...blunt reply, Katzenbach said: "It would be ridiculous to state that the overriding purpose of any criminal investigation is to insure equal treatment. Obviously, criminal investigation is designed to discover those guilty of crime." To be sure, he said, the great purpose of appellate court decisions reforming police procedures has been to cure glaring inequities. "But as the cases have presented more and more difficult questions of fairness and propriety, I believe the judges have left the public behind...
...such traditionally Catholic countries as Poland-confession is often a mechanical recitation of sins, followed by a few mumbling words of priestly comment and absolution and an instant penance ("Say three Our Fathers and three Hail Marys"). For both priest and penitent, confession frequently becomes a matter of "be blunt, be brief, begone...