Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter was barely civil. In cold, blunt words, New Hampshire's Republican Styles Bridges, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, wrote to George Marshall...
Snapped Young Henry: "The blunt truth about this relationship is that it made Mr. Ferguson a multimillionaire and cost the Ford Motor Co. $25 million in the process." As for patents, the Ford Co. claims Ferguson's had all expired on such features as Dearborn Motors had copied. The rest of Ferguson's "distorted" story would be answered "at the proper time and place," presumably in court...
Roberts was blunt. "Can the present European Recovery Plan do other than place us in the poisonous rich-uncle, poor-relationship situation that has severed so many family ties?" Europe's democracies are proud. "They feel that they gave what they gave for the benefit of free men everywhere. Is it surprising they resent the role of begging from our nation...
...Chianti to give his caller as a Christmas present. He entered the study carrying the wine. Capocci brusquely announced he wanted to demonstrate a new invention, produced a large pair of tailor's scissors. He took them apart and challenged Ricci to a duel. He handed the blunt part of the scissors to the Minister and said: "I take it that as a gentleman you choose this...
...conservative party, the Federalists. He believes that present-day attempts "to make Jefferson's reputation great by inflation may burst the bubble," and speaks of the explosive honesty of John Adams, the "underhanded tact and hypocrisy" of Jefferson, the "subtle and persistent venom" of John Quincy Adams. Such blunt historical editorializing has scarcely been seen in the U.S. since the days he writes about. But his partisanship for the Federalists is no greater than that of Morison and Brooks and Arthur Schlesinger for Thomas Jefferson and the Democrats...