Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From an unruffled "rather warm," the London Daily Express weather report rose to a blunt "hot," then staunchly maintained: "fine." For the three-day August bank holiday, a million Londoners migrated to the country and the seaside (where this week they were surprised by brief gales and showers). Throughout the heat spell, authorities had kept an eye on a below-normal water supply; the use of hoses and sprinklers was banned five days a week. In the London zoo, a lion decided that the best way to keep cool was to relax...
...Your article on Greece and the American Mission over here is really blunt and to the point...Many Americans (including the politicos) have the idea that wherever America sends aid and money, we are greeted with open arms. I have heard many Greek people express the opinion that the country would be better off if the Americans took their dollars and left Greece to its slow and inefficient way... These people are not Communist sympathizers, by any means...
...almost wholly dominated by U.S. manufacturers, but the 'British hope soon to get their share. Last week Vickers-Armstrong showed off its Viscount 700, in most respects a conventional-looking craft. The novelty was the four engines. They carried ordinary propellers on their noses, but instead of being blunt and thick, the Viscount's engines stuck out ahead of the wing like half-cigars (see cut). On these slender "turboprop" engines Britain is pinning her commercial airplane hopes...
...Less Freely." It was a blunt question and, by diplomatic standards, it got a blunt, affirmative answer. Replied Acheson: "There is something in this treaty that requires every member of the Senate, if you ratify it, when he comes to vote on military assistance, to exercise his judgment less freely than he would have exercised it if there had not been this treaty...
Louisiana's Dixiecrat Congressman F. Edward Hebert put it in language any politician could understand. "So the proposition is very clear," he said on the House floor "Your vote is for sale for a job or jobs." It was a blunt denunciation of the price tag Harry Truman had put on political patronage (see above...