Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...More Dollars. Britons had known that they were badly off, but this blunt statement was a shocker. Wasn't "The Loan" supposed to see them through the first five postwar years of reconstruction? What had gone wrong...
...plight of the plan, and of Argentina, was summed up in a blunt letter written to Perón by slim, brisk Major General Royal B. Lord, U.S.A., retired. As president of the Inter-American Construction Corp., Lord was hired by Perón last winter (TIME, Feb. 3) to draw blueprints for the plan's engineering projects. From his cluttered headquarters on Buenos Aires' Calle Uruguay, General Lord wrote...
...whistle. Supreme optimists!"); 2) in confessing sins of impurity, no gratuitously graphic details, please; 3) "don't say, 'perhaps I was uncharitable . . . perhaps I told lies. . . .' Did you or didn't you?"; 4) "It is bad manners not to listen to the priest"; 5) "Be blunt, be brief, be gone...
Jinnah was already using his new power to disrupt India further. In the face of Jawaharlal Nehru's blunt warning to the Indian princes ("We will not recognize the independence of any state in India"), Jinnah began courting them. Most princes had already decided to join Hindu India (see map), but the Nizam of Hyderabad (a Moslem) and Maharaja of Travancore (a Hindu) had each said he would go it alone. Jinnah dangled alliance-bait before them: "If states wish to remain independent ... we shall be glad to discuss with them and come to a settlement." Big Kashmir, still...
...picture has a reasonably grown-up point of view, although it never suggests that Scott's jealousy, and his childish indulgence of it, might be as ignoble as his wife's deceit. But it urges, in fairly blunt terms for the screen, that war wives suffered from celibacy as well as the sugar shortage. There is also a suggestion that forgiveness is desirable and hasty divorces undesirable...