Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Many varieties of organisms that appear to be separate species may actually have blunt-tipped leaves as a result of grazing," she added...
...ample belly hanging over the gun belt as the massive, 6-ft. 2-in. figure swaggers down the sidewalk. There is the natty uniform with gold stars on a white starched shirt, a button open at the neck. And there is the amiable cockiness, the touch of braggadocio, the blunt cigar and the smile revealing two gold-crowned teeth. Only one anomaly destroys the stereotype: Chief Wyche is black...
...orally, the conversation books are as one-sided as one half of a telephone call. Yet they make clear what Beethoven was thinking about, and where he occasionally wrote in the books himself-usually for a comment that he did not want others in the room to overhear-the blunt style is unmistakable. Nephew Karl brings home a somewhat seedy friend, and Beethoven jots down: "I don't like your choice of this friend at all. Poverty deserves sympathy, but not without exceptions...
Harddriving, conservative and blunt, Annenberg, 61, suffers from periodic attacks of foot-in-mouth disease. In London, where verbal agility is an almost indispensable social grace, Annenberg's bloopers stand out like Mao badges in Moscow. A British magazine recently described Annenberg's manner as "that authentic transatlantic style which one might call folk-baroque, with the native bonhomie and verbal felicity of W. C. Fields." His phrases have an engraved quality. Asked how he liked London, for example, he replied: "I consider it a stronghold of dignified living." On his diplomatic role: "I am here...
After this blunt exchange with an executive of a large chemical company, Illinois Attorney General William Scott Jr. haled the corporation to court for fouling the air with "divers noxious fumes, gases and chemical substances." It was typical of more than 200 lawsuits that Scott has brought against the state's polluting industries, government bodies and others in the past six months -and his crusade for clean air and water has just begun...