Word: blur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That is somewhat grand, considering the small size of Carrillo's party (claimed membership: 100,000) and the preference of most Spaniards for middle-road politics. Now Carrillo is trying to draw the more popular Socialists into a consensus on how to further democratize Spain, in order to blur their image as the dominant party on the left...
...aping this stereotype. Striving to be warbling Everymen, they fail to make their characterizations personal enough to be individually endearing. Collectively, they do not more than communicate a state of mind pervasive among males of a specific period and class; in a retrospect, their renditions coalesce into a lively blur...
...That blur in a business suit racing through New York City was Vice President Walter Mondale, stumping in behalf of local Democratic candidates. One of Mondale's more leisurely stops, however, was at a $100-a-plate dinner to honor Martin Luther King Sr., 77, and to raise funds for the Center for Social Change, headed by Coretta King. Among the 2,000 present: U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, New York City Mayor Abe Beame and New York Governor Hugh Carey. The program, which included a reading of Martin Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech by Actor...
...fruits of this doctrine have been the neutron bomb, the first nuclear anti-personnel weapon: it kills only people. Within hours, an invading army can move in and take over the dead "enemy's" economic political facilities which would have been left standing. The Pentagon has tried to blur any distinction between conventional weapons and both tactical and strategic nuclear weapons and within this context to win acceptance for the credibility of a "limited nuclear war." These policies were crystallized by former Secretary of State Kissinger and Secretary of Defense Schlesinger during the Nixon/Ford years and have been accepted...
Ahead of us a fine, 14-knot southwesterly breeze ruffles a quicksilver sea. In the hazy sunlight the horizon line is a blur of radiant mist. Through it, as the ferryboat Provincetown lumbers closer to the starting line, we suddenly make out the tall, spectral shapes of Courageous and Australia, coursing around beyond the committee boat. Seeing them for the first time is surprising, like getting an unexpected glimpse of a pair of large white unicorns playing in a formal garden...