Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blunt and true were the words of aged and revered Brigadier General George P. Vanier, commanding officer of the Fifth (Quebec) Military District...
There was just one more question we had on our mind. We didn't know quite how to put it. But time was getting short and, being good Americans, we blurted it right as blunt as could be: "When is your magazine going to be published?" we shouted, looking him straight in the eye. "Oh," he replied, "we're waiting for a major victory," and with that he zoomed up the street in a cloud of carbon monoxide...
General Hershey himself is a genial Indianan, noted for his wry wit. His speeches in the past have been blunt and frank, and he makes no bones of his opinion that all able-bodied men should be either in the army or in war work...
...such a pass? The Chicago Daily News and the Sun had sniped away interminably at the Tribune, while the really big game-the all-important Senate seat-slipped through. No one had done either the leg work or the straight thinking necessary; the people were left helpless before a blunt fact: of all the 7,897,000 people in Illinois, none but Curly Brooks and Warren Wright were presented for the Republican Senate nomination in this year of great need...
These were strong words for Clemmie to take back to Winston Churchill, facing a political crisis over his strategy of building up Allied defenses and arms in 1942 to strike in 1943. They struck bluntly on the ears of Sir Archibald Sinclair and Sir Charles Portal, who had based their R.A.F. policy on the idea that Britain's decisive air front is at home and over western Germany. They were also blunt words for the U.S., a direct plea not to let the Pacific war obscure the Hitler front...