Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Averell Harriman. The President had decided on suave, handsome W. Averell Harriman as the new U.S. Ambassador to Russia, replacing gruff, blunt old Admiral William H. Standley, (TIME, Sept. 27). But it seemed probable that snow-haired Cordell Hull, if his health permits, would make the long trip to Moscow for the coming tripartite conference...
...Svoboda, the sight of his new army must have made up for the years of disappointment. To bring it into being he argued, pleaded, strove to blunt Moscow's fears and suspicions. Once the Soviet Union leaders were convinced that Svoboda's army would be no future menace, they spared neither materiel nor care...
...blunt conclusion: If the U.S. continues "in the direction we are traveling now," it will run out of gasoline...
...receptacle, clutch gleefully in both hands, and with a heinous whoop," or whatever other sound may best express your innermost emotions, smash one at a time against the book-piled desk at which you've sat so many hot nights. After this act of delicious reprisal, grab the nearest blunt weapon, and bludgeon to permanent silence the obstinate object of your electronic muddle...
...idea got started when blunt, handsome, 38-year-old Surgeon Paul Sanger confided to General Marshall at a cocktail party in 1940 that the Charlotte doctors wanted to form an Army unit. The unit was authorized in December, went on active duty at Fort Bragg in March 1942, left for England Aug. 6, scrambled ashore in Africa Nov. 7 and was fully set up about ten miles from Oran a few days later. At Oran, the unit handled 2,027 patients...