Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Studied Air. He was something new after the blunt integrity of Marshall, the glad-handing of Stettinius, the political quickness of Byrnes, the Hull who had been alternately earthy and ponderous. The new Secretary was a man who took as much care with his phrases as he did with his clothes-both had a slightly studied air of elegant informality. His unruffled aloofness was salted with a dry humor...
Virtually the only man who stood in a clear-cut position was blunt Bob Taft. The paradox of his position this week was that he was far more liberal than most of the right-wingers who supported him, and generally as liberal as some of the groping rebels who wanted to kick...
...Munoz added a blunt warning that Puerto Rico's destiny was not to be achieved by phony nationalism...
...Welles's Profile of Europe. In down-to-earth pictures of daily living, he showed that Russian Communism is still a burden borne on the patient backs of the overworked and undernourished Russian people. In I Saw Poland Betrayed, onetime U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane wrote a blunt, forceful account of the means by which the Kremlin (with little resistance from the U.S. Government) took over the Polish state. Political pundits had a sure-fire topic in Russia v. the Western democracies. Most crisp and provocative of a spate of books on the subject was bright, British Barbara Ward...
Last spring, when the highly volatile Arab League embarked on a Holy War against the infant state of Israel, the entire civilized world shuddered. In blunt and savage terms, the Arabs dedicated themselves to the complete extermination of the new Jewish nation. It was to be a grisly purge and there were grave fears in the United Nations that an explosion in Palestine would wreck the fragile postwar peace...