Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dilatation and curettage, usually done under general anesthesia, has long been used within the first twelve weeks. The cervix, or opening of the uterus, is dilated with a series of progressively larger sounds-thin, blunt-ended metal rods. Then the uterus itself is scraped with a dull-edged curette, a small spoon-shaped instrument, until all embryonic matter has been removed. The entire procedure can take as little as 15 minutes. When it is done under local anesthesia, it sometimes produces painful cramping, but many women can return to their homes or jobs only hours after it has been performed...
...Wait Until Dark, Playwright Frederick Knott used a series of ingenious devices to keep the killer and the audience dangling. In See No Evil, Scenarist Brian Clemens offers no motivations and precious few plot twists. Nor is his head-on harum-scarum approach improved by Richard Fleischer's blunt direction, which favors sudden cuts to broken corpses and sadistic closeups of a girl precipitously tumbling into catatonia. Manifestly, Fleischer is out for only one thing: to inspire sudden fear. That he does, but at the expense of taste. The two were not mutually exclusive in two previous Fleischer films...
...serious threat to Nixon's program. Outright union defiance could prove disastrous. Almost nothing could paralyze economic expansion, which the President is counting on to create new jobs and improve productivity, so quickly as a series of major strikes. More than one Administration official last week recalled apprehensively the blunt words of longtime Mine Workers Boss John L. Lewis, who by angry threats almost alone destroyed the wage freeze that followed World War II. Said Lewis: "You can't mine coal with bayonets...
Many sensed, however, that Meany had aimed his blunt criticism beyond its immediate mark. Said a Manhattan construction worker: "He's thinking of the overall problem, which he knows and I don't." Moreover, an increasing number repeated labor's ceaselessly argued point: that the Nixon program places an unfair burden on labor. C.L. Dennis, president of the Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks, pointed to perhaps the greatest disparity possible in a period of incomes policy. Says he: "Sure, I've got a few shares of stock myself. But it's wrong as hell to have fortunes made...
...speed up the search for a successor and retire this fall. The most likely contenders: Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, 66, who now finds himself handicapped by an overly close identification with Sato's policies, and Minister of International Trade and Industry Kakuei Tanaka, 53, a blunt-spoken self-made man who has strong party support even though he is regarded as somewhat "unpredictable" in Japanese financial circles...