Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnson Act, which forbids loans to nations that have defaulted in former war loans, meaning England and France. This is a potent weapon, but again must be guarded jealously against forces both abroad and must be guarded jealously against forces both abroad and at home that would like to blunt it. Britain especially, who needs capital to carry on her enormously expensive blockade, may well be appalled at the sight of a creditor nation like the U.S. accumulating more credit all the time, and putting it out of her reach by the Johnson Act. Just how these possible threats...
...Blunt object of Germany's indiscriminate war on neutral shipping is to discourage neutrals from trading with Great Britain. Great Britain's reply is her convoy system, of which she invites neutrals to take advantage, setting at one in 450 the chances of a convoyed ship's being lost. This week the Foreign Ministers of Denmark, Norway and Sweden were to meet in Copenhagen to consider forming convoys armed by themselves. From Sept. 3 to Feb. 15, Norway alone lost 47 vessels totaling 103,121 tons, nine of them in the last month. Last week she demanded...
When he is pressed, when the time is ripe, Franklin Roosevelt can be blunt to the point of brutality. Faced by these cocky, sullen kids, he let himself go, gave the kids (and their adopted mother, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt) a first-class spanking...
...first twenty in order are: Dave Goldthwaite, Bungy King, Bill Thurston, Dick Whittemore, John Burr, Harry Motley, Dick Shepley, Captain Tom Winship, Finn Ferner, Fred Coolidge, Herb Weiner, Eliot Richardson, Buck Anderson, Gerry Davis, Ed Dickson, Herby Greene, Harry Hollmeyer, Fred Peccy-Blunt, Dave Wilson, Steve Bittenbender, and Phil Field...
When bluntspoken, disheveled Carioca* Villa-Lobos went to Paris in 1923, he did not go to get polished. "I didn't come here to study," blurted he. "I came to show you what I have done." When he had finished showing them his blunt, smoldering music (much of it written for Brazilian tom-toms and gourd rattles), the Parisians decided he was a sort of musical William Saroyan. His Paris apartment became a rendezvous for admiring Left-Bankers. Villa-Lobos, who couldn't afford to keep open house, threw them out, told them not to come back unless...