Word: blunts
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...what Silverman described as a “rushed” costume fitting. He described his wardrobe—double-breasted suits, loose slacks, and old wingtip shoes—as simply “very ’50s clothing.” Jacobs, however, was much more blunt. “I looked as though I had borrowed my clothes from a recently deceased grandfather,” he said...
...this country has ever seen - and one of the largest media stakeouts since the Chandra Levy case broke. Moose, who served for 27 years (including six as chief) on the Portland, Oregon police force, has some experience with the media, but nothing that could have prepared him for the blunt force of the cameras and microphones that confront him, sometimes four or five times a day, during his 20-hour shifts...
...Party members are scrambling to undo some of the more recent damage. Lien, the chairman, told reporters in Taipei recently, "we hope to begin building a new image." Step one is to blunt President Chen's latest attack. On Sept. 25, Lien pledged to put the party's assets into a foreign-managed trust fund. In addition, he said the KMT would be willing to hand over to the government 110 parcels of land and 42 buildings, worth a total of $23 millionthat it says were "gifts" from generous benefactors. Lien dismissed allegations that the assets were illegally acquired...
...question is ‘Are these salt-tolerant babies destined to acquire hypertension later in life?’” asked Zinner. “And if you were to remove salt from these infants’ diets, could you blunt the development of hypertension...
When you are a writer with that many axes to grind, it's only a matter of time before you produce a novel about serial killers. Not that the offhand killings in Lullaby (Doubleday; 260 pages) involve anything so blunt as a hatchet. The murder weapons here are words. At fortysomething, Carl Streator has been a widower for 20 years. He is a recognizable Palahniuk character, the kind who deals with grief by building small scale models of churches, factories and houses, then stomping them to splinters until his feet bleed. Carl is a newspaper reporter working on a series...