Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gets along with the Russians without antagonizing too much those who don't, he returned last year from a month's visit to England and immediately accepted an invitation to tour Russia. George Bernard Shaw, whom De Strobl once "busted," neatly ticketed the sculptor's somewhat bland art when he described the portrait of himself as being "what I should like to look like. Perhaps I shall some day, if I contemplate it with sufficient intensity...
That was language that the men in the Kremlin might understand. Less understandable was the bland remark of President Harry Truman. The prospects for peace, said the President, were not only good, they were excellent...
Kremlin propagandists have always enthusiastically endorsed the slogan "Asia for the Asians." Communism, they hoped, would fill the political vacuum left by departing European powers. Last week, however, in the five small city-states of India remaining under French control,* came a bland reversal of the party line. Local Communist leaders labeled the neighboring Indian government a "Fascist" oppressor, ordered party members to vote against union with India in plebiscites to be held this month. Instead, Communists must vote for continued French rule...
...above all others, has made life all but impossible for independent Argentine newspapers and newsmen was made honorary president of the Argentine Press Syndicate last week. President Juan Domingo Perón accepted the honor with bland grace-and no wonder. Like their new head, members of the Peronista-minded syndicate believe that the press should be the tool of government, not an instrument of freedom...
Those were the days when Waugh was being one of the Bright Young Things later satirized in Vile Bodies. But Evelyn was constantly widening his connections with the country gentry. He took up fox hunting and began to give examples of a personal courage about which he is quite bland but which amazes his friends. They still wince at the thought of the dauntless little pink-coated figure dashing at fences and ditches that would unnerve more experienced horsemen...