Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australian foreign policy has been the realization that Australia's present plight, and future welfare, are problems which once concerned Britain and Australia, but which are now primarily the concern of the U.S. and Australia. With the Japanese massing for invasion, the Australians were desperate. If tough, blunt talk was needed, burly Herbert Vere Evatt, Minister for External Affairs, was the man to make it. Curtin dispatched him to Washington to plead Australia's case on the brief prepared by Casey...
With her steam-plumed whistle barking, the low, trim Lake tanker Paratex moved down Toledo's Maumee River, cleared Cedar Point, and pushed her blunt bow towards Detroit. The Great Lakes shipping season was open-a month ahead of time on Lake Erie, but none too early. For this year all records must be broken...
...deputy leader of the Radical (liberal) Party, young Damonte had been blunt in his criticism of Argentina's failure to break diplomatic relations with the Axis...
...Home Folks. Yet men with keen ears thought that Axis propaganda weapons were getting blunt from over work: global war to the death was just too big. German setbacks in Russia were al most too big for the master propagandist, Adolf Hitler, himself. His address to his people, on the ninth anniversary of his leadership, sounded like an old phono graph record grinding away under a groove-stuck needle: "Russian winter . . . many . . plutocratic . Russian warmongers . . . winter. . . ." innocent Ger Hitler almost said in so many words that it would do the German people no good to throw the Nazis...
...question in blunt terms-blunter than England ever likes to be-is whether Britain is going Socialist permanently. Last week a sign of this "revolution" loomed high above the horizon in the shape of Sir Stafford Cripps's well-molded head, lighted by his fierce black eyes. Sir Stafford, home from Russia, which he intensely admires in peace no less than in war, made clear that he proposed to be the head of the opposition to Churchill. With Englishmen saddened by their own defeats and praying for Red victories, Sir Stafford had a beautiful tactical position. Whether he would...