Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find out why they are losing male voters." However, White House sources admit that women's issues have become a matter of high-level concern. Responsibility for dealing with the gender gap has been turned over to Deputy Chief of Staff Mike Deaver with orders, say sources, to "blunt it-by substance and symbolism...
During a 70-minute press conference before leaving Moscow, Kohl confidently gave Soviet newsmen blunt answers every time they raised the missile issue. When one journalist began a question by proclaiming that "for the first time since World War II, plans are being made to station nuclear weapons on West German soil pointed at the Soviet Union," Kohl replied sharply: "SS-20s are deployed on Soviet territory, and they are directed at us." When another questioner said Germany had already attacked the Soviet Union twice in this century, Kohl countered that Germany was not solely responsible for starting World...
...clear reference to John Paul's homily in Czestochowa, in which he cited examples of heroic self-sacrifice from Poland's 1,000-year history. Foreign Minister Stefan Olszowski blamed "Western countries and their media" for turning the papal visit into an "antisocialist demonstration." Equally blunt criticism came from Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban, who hinted that "relations between church and state" might be damaged by the Pope's visit. Said he: "We did not rent him the country for a week...
...Connor had cast as an Arizona state senator that were interpreted as being proabortion. Therefore, it came as something of a surprise last week when, in the first test of her views on the issue since she joined the brethren 21 months ago, O'Connor wrote a blunt dissent to the court's opinion that reaffirmed the right to abortion...
...Maggie's appearances, nodding and applauding at the right moments, croaking, "Hear, hear," like a proud bullfrog each time she makes a point. A diligent Norwegian reporter counted 40 "Hear, hears" during a single Thatcher speech a few weeks ago in Yorkshire. Denis has a penchant for the blunt phrase. He routinely refers to trade unionists as "Luddites" and to antinuclear protesters as "Commies." As he once put it, "I don't pretend that I'm anything but an honest-to-God right-winger." After a few such remarks slipped into the press, Denis stopped giving interviews...