Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bayard Brunt, 38, star rewriteman on the Philadelphia Bulletin, the tip from the Miami News on the death of a young woman looked like nothing more than a routine news story-at first. All he knew was that a Miami policeman, Earl Oestreicher, had been given emergency leave to go to Philadelphia because of the sudden death there of his wife. Brunt remembered Oestreicher: only two months before, he had eloped with Philadelphia Heiress Doris Jean Silver, 22, daughter of a vice president of Food Fair Stores, Inc. (fifth largest U.S. food chain) and niece of the chain...
...this month, probably to return to his family textile business, J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc. (In 28 months the stock that he had to sell on taking office would have earned him more than half a million dollars in dividends and capital gains.) Bob Stevens bore the brunt of last year's televised Army-McCarthy hearings, became a familiar national figure as the bumbling, decent, defiant victim of McCarthy's tactics ("Come on, Robert, tell us the truth now"). With his resignation all the principals have given up the positions they then held except Joe McCarthy himself, still...
...result of the Salk vaccine, the company was up to its ears in the most unfavorable corporation publicity in recent years. More and more medical men were asking for a re-examination of Salk vaccine production techniques (see MEDICINE), but it was Cutter that had borne the brunt of public indignation over the early snafus, and it was Cutter's vaccine that was banned by the U.S. Public Health Service. There was some reason for this: Cutter injections were accompanied by a far higher proportion of polio cases than those of any other company...
Almost every barrier the U.S. meets abroad is matched by wrangling at home. The Agriculture and Treasury Departments, which bear the brunt of the surplus costs, will go for almost any scheme to move commodities into the market place and lessen the load...
Marshal Stalin was not interested in proverbs, or in the twitter of small birds. "Marshal Stalin," goes the record, "made it quite plain on a number of occasions that he felt that the three great powers, which had borne the brunt of the war and had liberated the small powers, should have the unanimous right to preserve the peace of the world...