Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when police fired on the crowd, the Nazi-controlled Paris press growled, "Jews and Communists!" Same day, two miles away in the traditionally Red St. Denis district, police quelled another roaring riot. Following day, Nazi authorities revealed a wave of arson was sweeping both zones in France, issued a blunt warning to Communist saboteurs and propagandists that they were "liable to the death penalty." Latest arson victims: three large factories producing German war supplies. Train wrecks were multiplying so rapidly that Paris police posted 1,000,000 francs for information which would trap the responsible culprits...
This week Franklin Roosevelt invited nine members of the House and Senate (including Republicans Austin of Vermont and Wadsworth of New York) to the White House, sat them down to listen to General Marshall. What they heard they kept generally to themselves. But anybody could guess it. The blunt fact was that only two of the Army's 33 divisions (the First and Third) could be kept relatively intact if the U.S.'s one-year soldiers were sent home. The other regular outfits would have to start all over again. Draftees would have to be lugged back from...
This was a complete definition of what worried Tokyo last week, and there was no sign that Tokyo was getting anywhere with it. The advocates of physical force spoke loud & long. Blunt-faced Toshio Shiratori, potent diplomatic adviser to the Foreign Office, who rants like any Nazi about "plutocratic Jews and democrats," declared: "The greatest reason for Japan's participation in the triple alliance lies in the fact that the three signatory powers at this time of great change in the world situation have the same position, the same interests and entertain the same political views. China...
Significantly the pounding unit went to Crete. The move was a blunt tip-off that so far as the Germans were concerned the job of bridging the Mediterranean to Libya was finished; that the Axis force there was nearly ready to roll. The move brought death from the air to Alexandria, which lies within striking distance of Crete (see p. 21). At Crete the unit was also available if necessary for action in Syria...
...into four economic areas (see map), the "abstract" made one thing clear: Germany and Japan do their diplomatic thinking along deadly parallels. But whereas Germany's appeasement feeler was designed to convince unanalytical U.S. citizens of its reasonableness, no matter what its intent, Japan's was a blunt invitation to the U.S. to abdicate as a great power. The plan...