Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had seen the speech before Lord Halifax delivered it only because a friendly newspaperman brought it over for comment. And on that first copy they could not fail to note that Lord Halifax's single mention of Canada's first minister was a blunt "Mr. Mackenzie King...
From faraway Moscow had come blunt talk about the legerdemain with the Blue Division. The Reds, Franco saw, were onto the trick which had dissolved Spain's proud contribution to the anti-Bolshevik war-by reclothing some 1,500 men as members of a new Spanish Legion in the Wehrmacht. Other blasts from Moscow spoke of oil and bread and strategic materials which Russia thought Spain was still sending Hitler. Franco could shrug; the outbursts were plainly directed at Russia's Allies, held no special meaning for Spain so long as they produced no change in London...
...been leveled to the ground . . . well-known names, rare in lore of various kinds, rich in experience, and ripe in years. In short, they are 'safe.' They could not be otherwise. . . . Surely the Department can't call any of them 'new blood'. . . . The blunt fact is . . . the Department hasn't budged an inch...
...blunt, forthright commander, may refuse to make recommendations; another, brought up in the tradition of bemedaling, may lean in the other direction...
Whether the special bills, schemes, promises and bustling in State capitals could solve the problem or not (the Army & Navy plainly thought not), the worrywart frenzy of state activity was a symptom of the nation's temper. In blunt words, voters had told their legislators-both state and national-that something must be done...