Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a University point of view, the priority of this Office over freshman activities is unquestioned. But Freshmen have a point of view too,--and it's pretty blunt. Straus was intended for Yard social activities, and not University business enterprises. And this year, when plans for freshman affairs are buzzing as never before, such a bureaucratic squeeze-play is having a damaging effect. The University should reconsider Operation Straus, fit the Advisor's Office in somewhere else--if possible--and give freshman society back its much-needed common room...
...right or wrong? The question might soon be settled by history. The military news indicated that he might have been tragically wrong, for reasons which he himself had foreseen eight months ago. In February 1948, Marshall had appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, had there engaged in a blunt exchange with Minnesota's Congressman Walter Judd...
Wool does not come into market the peasant does not eat his own grain the girl's needle goes blunt in her hand...
...very absence of color, the refusal to jump to conclusions, and the blunt, graceless prose, have the persuasiveness of a courtroom exhibit. What Freeman once said of Robert E. Lee holds good for his approach to George Washington: "I know where Lee was and what he did every minute of the Civil War, but I wouldn't dare presume what he was thinking...
Flying Tackles. Norwegian critics never go that far, and laymen seem to like the statues-at least, the park draws visitors of all ages in droves. As for blunt-spoken old Gustav Vigeland (who died in 1943), he refused to consider criticism for a moment. Oslo's city fathers gave him what he demanded: carte blanche and an expense account for 24 years to do for Oslo, if he could, what Michelangelo did for Rome (total bill: some $5,000,000). As his part of the bargain, Vigeland gave Oslo more than 120 groups of park statues...