Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, U.N. was forcing the U.S. and other countries to meet blunt purposes with something more than brave platitudes...
...scenes about the Yard, it shall be with enthusiasm; we shall mark the times and deeds with truth; and we shall look for the humanity in man. We will laugh, and let him protest whom the jester's sock pinches. We shall ask questions and they shall be blunt. Come with us, Veritas; we want your company, and we hope that you may profit from ours. We will have an answer ready when you ask, "Quo vadimus...
Bevin was blunt: the Polish heroes of Cassino and a hundred other battlefields had become a political embarrassment. The Russians were thundering that they constituted a British-sponsored threat to the Moscow-orientated Warsaw Government...
Bevin with Knobs. Amidst all these alarms came Churchill's blunt speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), to carry still further the sequence of plain talking among the Big Three which began in January with the Bevin-Vishinsky clashes at UNO. Said a bitter left-wing Labor M.P.: "It was Bevin with knobs...
...behind New York University's late-blooming Violets was modest, blunt, hokum-hating Coach Howard ("Jake") Cann. Scornful of modern mastermind "systems," for 22 years he has coached the same kind of ball he played a quarter-century ago, when he was one of basketball's greats. He seldom diagrams a play. Once, pressed to explain his "N.Y.U. system," he deadpanned: "Well, we throw the ball around a lot and do our best to put it in the basket." His real formula: hold the score down, wear 'em out, then pour...