Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much the defeat in the November elections (the Republicans were used to defeat) but the direful question: What was wrong with the Republican Party? Nobody knew. Pennsylvania's Republican Governor James Duff thought the party ought "to shed some of the aloofness we have." Harold Stassen was blunt. "The Republican Party is in a bad way," he said. "It is sort of like a football team sustaining a crushing defeat after having advanced the ball to the five-yard line." What Stassen thought the party needed was "a tremendous lot of rebuilding...
Last month the Czech Communist government brought obviously phony charges of espionage against a Czech-born U.S. citizen named Samuel Meryn, a clerk at the American embassy in Prague. In a formal note of protest the U.S. State Department vainly demanded his release. Last week blunt, able Ellis Briggs, new U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia, presented his credentials to Czech President Klement Gottwald. In the golden days of diplomacy, the presentation of credentials was considered an occasion unfit for the transaction of business. But Briggs, no man to be silenced by diplomatic niceties, used the formal occasion to bring up some...
...Metro is closed from 1 until 6 in the morning. Rush hours occur just about the same time as in a U.S. city. The crowds are heavy too, but they do not push their way in & out of cars with the blunt fury of stampeding cattle (as is customary in New York City). Said one U.S. correspondent formerly stationed in the Soviet capital: "The Russian people just move along ploddingly; they are not nearly so ferocious...
...born and made his fame. The invitation came through Fellow Sculptor Jo Davidson, who had recently completed a bust of Marshal Tito, and it was from the Dictator himself. "Tell Mestrovic," Tito had said, "not to be a fool. Tell him to come back." The expatriate sculptor's blunt reply: "Too many of my friends are in jail over there...
...newspaper offices throughout the South last week, editors and publishers were reading a new, blunt-spoken pamphlet on one of their major ethical problems. Its title: Race in the News. Its thesis: many Southern editors still pander to anti-Negro prejudice, thereby ignore their responsibility for better newspapers and better race relations...