Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elected to the newly formed Parliament and owed their power to him no longer, but to the electorate. Sukarno disowned even the Nationalist Party which originally was his creation. Only one group stayed slavishly loyal to him, no matter what he said-the Communist Party, which also escaped the brunt of his corruption charges for the reason that it has never been in the Cabinet. When Sukarno, impatient of confused and ineffectual democracy, proposed to run a "guided democracy" (with Sukarno as guide and leader), he insisted that Communists be included in his suprastate National Council...
...forecast was hardly in print before the Politburo was directing all Polish Communists to fight on two fronts: against "sectarians," a discreet new name for the Stalinists, and against "revisionists," the derogatory new name for the liberal hopefuls. By last week it was becoming clearer that the brunt of the attack is being borne by the revisionists...
These five are expected to carry the brunt of the Crimson attack this year, and since four of them are returning lettermen, MacVeagh, Place and Heckscher being the top three on last year's team, Coach Jack Barnaby feels that the team has an excellent chance of repeating last year's championship performance...
...urge upon the world not the counsels of despair which would describe the situation as beyond salvation . . . Foremost, inevitably, in our thinking are the heroic people of Hungary. For centuries they have been a bastion of Christendom against the outer perils . . . Now again they have received the full brunt of a calculated fury and have written a matchless chapter in the annals of freedom...
Nixon promptly threw away his prepared speech notes and set to work anew, aware that the telephone call had signaled a turning point in the campaign: Ike is through turning the Republican other cheek to Democratic attacks. As Nixon knew, the brunt of carrying the counterattack would fall upon him and G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall, for Ike had no intention of lending the presidency to campaign potshotting...