Word: brunt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...brunt of the burden fell, as before, on three institutions: the Group 20 Players at Wellesley's Theatre on the Green, the Boston Summer Theatre in New England Mutual Hall, and the Tufts Arena Theatre in Medford...
...that once promising baby, television, moves straight from infancy into senility," adds TV Writer Dale Wasserman, the writers themselves must bear the brunt of the blame. "Sometimes I dream of a truly controversial play-oh, say, one in defense of intolerance. A fine case could be, made. Think of the fun of galvanizing the sleepy, postprandial audience, goading it into sitting up and saying: 'What? What was that?' But this demands extraordinary effort. Thinking takes work . . . Thus the quick-and-lucrative looks better every...
...this year, reported that customers were beginning to ask for immediate delivery, a sure sign that "inventory reductions are nearing the point where we should feel the impact of an upturn by not later than midyear." As for steel, which so far has borne much of the brunt of the recession. President Avery C. Adams, of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., No. 4 in the industry, announced that J. & L.'s orders climbed slightly during the first twelve days of March, though nothing to get excited about yet. Nevertheless, Adams expected to make good his boast of turning a profit...
...solution for the island's troubles. Minutes later, the rumor was proved false. The peaceful procession was abruptly transformed into an angry, howling mob. The "Black Turks" -Cyprus' special police trained to brutal efficiency in breaking up riots-were unwilling to fight their own people; the brunt fell on British troops and police. Flinging Coke bottles and stones, the mob stormed down narrow Kyrenia Street to the house of the Turkish Cypriot leader, Dr. Fazil Kuchuk, a physician whose fancy it is to keep a bottled fetus at each end of his consulting-room mantel...
...wardens swooped down on an Eastern Shore passel of 15 hunters, discovered that the surrounding corn field was illegally baited. Among the gunners in the wardens' bag: Lieut. General Edward T. Williams, deputy chief of the Continental Army Command at Fort Monroe. Va., and Major General Rinaldo Van Brunt, Second Army chief of staff at Fort Meade. Md. Maximum penalty (if the baiting rap can be hung on the generals): a $500 fine, six months in jail...