Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burma-Ledo road when it was finished. Backgrounding all the rumors were the delicate political situation in China, the conflict of Chinese and British interests in southeast Asia, and the pressure of Communists in and out of China. Army men, who knew about Chinese-speaking Joe Stilwell's blunt forthrightness, reflected that his job called for the diplomacy of a super-Eisenhower...
...witch legend is a matter for hooting and disbelief in adjoining Little Waltham. Little Walthamites in road crews assure me they have moved the stone a score of times in as many years. . . . It is my reluctant conclusion that the witch of Scrapfaggot Green is-to be blunt-a hoax...
Governor of New York. He was elected governor of New York in 1918. By now he was a shrewd, blunt, humorous campaigner, with an unequaled knowledge of the state's affairs. He was also a great legislative technician with an uncanny ability to rasp out simple, pointed explanations of complicated governmental problems. He battled for slum clearance, set up children's courts, got additional millions for teachers' salaries. He wanted people to enjoy themselves-he took the ban off Sunday baseball...
Nevertheless, Nahas had persuaded five Arab states* to unite politically, culturally, economically, and to issue a blunt Pan-Arab pronouncement that "the rights of Palestine Arabs could not be violated without the risk of disturbing peace in the Arab world...
...contrast, Willkie's blunt honesty, his freedom from political entanglements, his unquestioned patriotism, his practical idealism concerning the U.S.'s inevitable participation in a One World future, make him the kind of leader we so desperately need in the next few years-in war and peace...