Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another rugged individualist has enlisted in the U.S. defense program-which needs more of them. Frank Pembroke ("Huck") Huckins is a blunt Boston Yankee with confidence to burn. Last year he told the Navy he could make a motor torpedo boat which wouldn't pound the teeth out of its crew. To most old salts, this sounded fantastic. But since Huckins was willing to spend his own money on the boat-if the Navy would just supply the engines-the Navy turned him loose...
...glib, soft-spoken naval diplomat. He has a salty tongue and a predilection for blunt truths. In periodic get-togethers with Lieut. General Douglas MacArthur,* who commands the U.S. and native troops in the Philippines, and with Dutch and British officers, he usually says little. He prefers action. Tommy Hart will be ready to shoot...
...President Roosevelt said, if every schoolchild knew it, if the shooting had started, why could not such a vote be taken? Somewhere between the hard common-sense drama of General Wood and the idealistic quandary of President Roosevelt, most U.S. emotion and attention was centered. General Wood's blunt words did not leave enough room for U.S. reactions to such Nazi blows as the killing of hostages, the speed and power of the Nazi conquests. The solemn words of President Roosevelt did not take in enough of the practical, blundering world of Congressmen, isolationists, and people who look with...
...anti-tank battalion, will soon get an anti-aircraft battalion, and a third regiment of infantry. Its weapon strength has been multiplied beyond the fondest dreams of any gun crank. It has 3,997 machine guns (including 1,460 Tommy-guns). It has 284 cannon, ranging from blunt-snouted 155s and 105s for the artillery to slim 75s for anti-tank work. And it rides in an assortment of 2,900-odd vehicles...
short-wave newscasters go in the direction of "counter propaganda." NBC's staff of 65 smart writers, producers and linguists has been working for democracy long enough to feel with fervor that the blunt American truth is the best antidote to Goebbelsian innuendo. Of the latter, they know through their correspondence (e.g. 1,170 European, 4,524 South American, 4,908 Central American letters so far this year) their listeners are sick & tired...