Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixty-nine refugees who feared that the Russian threat might reach into Sweden for them crowded into the Prolific, a blunt-nosed fishing schooner, about half as big as the Mayflower. They had sailed over 6,000 miles of ocean to reach a U.S. haven. They had weathered storms in the Bay of Biscay and off Cape Finisterre. They had traded their clothes for grapes and coconuts in Madeira and broken their steering gear in a hurricane off Bermuda. Under leaky hatches in fetid, 90° heat, their women had nursed children sick with chicken pox. After 60 days...
...grasp. Last week's news was full of D.D.s-displaced diplomats. In Washington the Polish embassy military attache, General Izydor Modelski, ordered home by his Communist-run governme'nt, had point-blank refused to go, asked asylum in the U.S. He had a soldier's blunt reason: "I have never been a member of the Communist Party, nor have I ever been in sympathy with its aims...
...cities. In Detroit's Cadillac Square he found a tremendous turnout. The C.I.O. and the A.F.L. had worked together to make a show of labor's numbers. Upwards of 100,000 people packed the open plaza and converging streets around City Hall. Harry Truman gave them a blunt and truculent speech on the theme that only he and the Democratic Party had the welfare of the "little man" at heart. Said...
...those who interposed a "yes, but-" was Britain's Cripps. Cripps objected that changes must come slowly. Hoffman was blunt. Said he grimly: "I told them they'd have to hang together or they would hang separately...
...Iron Curtain. Darryl F. Zanuck's blunt-spoken thriller about the Soviet-Canadian atomic spy ring, with Dana Andrews as the man who cracked it (TIME...