Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardy Swiss," the "resolute Turk," the freedom-loving Dutch, in fact all European neutrals, won eulogies last week from First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. He poured it out in a radio speech from London. But it was not all admiration for these brave peoples. Blunt Mr. Churchill, speaking with a back-throat lisp caused by a badly fitting upper plate, went on to say things that hitherto Great Britain has uttered only under her breath...
...unclasped in thought, to Cordell Hull's ears came only the muffled tick of the ancient grandfather clock that has been in the Department of State offices since 1777. But the tick may well have seemed like the tick of a timebomb. He had just received a blunt warning-a demand by Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg that Mr. Hull's reciprocal trade agreements be investigated by the Senate...
...Third-Termites of the Week: Illinois's bald, paunchy Governor Henry Horner. Chicago's bluff, blunt Mayor Edward Kelly. Add anti-Third Termites: New York City's Republican Bruce Barton, adman, God-man and Congressman from the Park Avenue district: "I feel sure that Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt will be permitted to have a happy, peaceful time at Hyde Park in the future...