Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roger Hilsman, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs under Kennedy and Johnson, author of To Move a Nation, asserts: "The blunt truth is that the President knows very little that you and I don't know. And even that little extra is going to leak out sooner or later -more often sooner than later...
Only ten years ago, most patients dreaded the needle because it was likely to be blunt and painful. Doctors were concerned because re-used needles were not always truly sterile and transmitted serum hepatitis to untold numbers of patients. The disposable hypodermics virtually eliminated both the discomfort and the risk to patients...
...time for the rock, the bullet, the blunt...
Politics is, in fact, the field in which many blacks place their highest hopes. Perhaps the best example of the emerging black politician is Julian Bond, whose cool style charms both blacks and whites even as he assails white racism in blunt terms. Tough and smart, he has used his local position as a member of the Georgia legislature to achieve national prominence as a hall-packing speaker. A less glamorous but no less aggressive politician is Charles Evers, one of a growing number of black officials in small Southern towns. In Fayette, Miss., Evers has refused to yield before...
...with finesse, the same imaginative energy and nimble prose that marked his previous contributions to social-science fiction, Seconds, The Tour and Time Out, a collection of short stories. If Poor Devils suffers, it is from an excess of padding and marginal rumination. But they are not enough to blunt the book's theme: the enormous human need to feel valuable in a dangerous, complex world, where men are numbed or manipulated by remote control for what may or may not be their own good. As embodied in the aggressively bathless Carl Lundquist, the theme lingers like Whitman...