Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vellucci's quick retirement may be the best indicator of the importance of the allegations. It was apparently the only way to blunt further publicity and Peter Vellucci said it will allow his father to expand his campaign commitments...
...Blunt Bill Veeck told me how things are, during a layover in Chicago. Richie Zisk, an unsigned White Sox, hit two home runs in an important game, and I remarked that with each homer, Zisk was getting more expensive...
...support in the business community remains strong. Yet the Wall Street Journal last week declared that Lance's effectiveness as budget director has probably been destroyed, and Business Week called for his resignation; so did the Los Angeles Times. White House Press Secretary Jody Powell worked overtime to blunt the criticism. He announced, for example, that Carter would pay $1,793.70 for five flights he took in 1975 and 1976 on a plane belonging to one of the banks that Lance formerly ran, the National Bank of Georgia...
Then, two days later, in blunt defiance of previous warnings by Jimmy Carter against further Israeli colonization of occupied lands, Jerusalem announced that it would build still more settlements-a grand total of 35-in the occupied territories. Three are to be established immediately on the West Bank. The government's lame explanation for the decision: the new settlements were included in a plan approved by the previous regime...
...over a variety of country rhythms. The words could be both bittersweet and low on the subjects of loneliness and love: "And there's nothin' short of dyin'/ Half as lonesome as a sound/ On the sleeping city sidewalk;/ Sunday mornin' comin' down." And blunt about sex: "There ain't nothing sweeter than naked emotions/ So you show me yours, hon, and I'll show you mine...