Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blunt fact from which there is no escape that, in the teeth of the Nov. 8 warning from the FBI, the developing evidence indicated a substantial spy ring operating within the Government and involving Harry Dexter White and the documented report delivered to the White House on Dec. 4. Some six weeks later President Truman, on Jan. 23, 1946, publicly announced his nomination of Harry Dexter White for appointment to the International Monetary Fund. I just do not understand this. It still seems completely incredible...
...G.O.P. senators, pained at such blunt tactics against one of their own, wavered and weasled and, after an unhappy, three-hour meeting last week, reached a face-saving compromise: Wicks would be allowed to resign sometime before the start of the next regular session Jan. 6. Wicks continued to preside as the senate passed a legislative reapportionment bill and moved toward adjournment; not a word was said on the floor about his removal...
...Gentry. Magsaysay is the first man to reach the top in the Philippines who is not of the gentry. A blunt, impetuous man who often acts before he thinks, Magsaysay has by no means yet mastered the coral-sharp reefs of Filipino politics, nor is he the parliamentary equal of many of the barracudas who swim in both Filipino parties...
...Professionals), began operation with a staff of ten Education Ministry employees three months ago, has since signed up some 40 professional associations (including astronomers, accountants, librarians, lawyers). Its goal is to corral 1,250,000 members-or virtually all of Argentina's white-collar workers. In a blunt speech to C.G.T. leaders, Peron warned that they must accept the new federation, and that there will be no wage increases when contracts expire next March. By dividing labor. Peron apparently hopes to hold out against union demands that would set off a new inflationary spiral in Argentina...
...district in the California State Assembly for the last six years. Lipscomb is considered a member of the California Republican faction headed by Vice President Richard Nixon. Still in the race, despite strong organization pressure to get him out, is Republican John L. Collier, 49, a big, blunt manufacturer's agent who for seven years has represented another section of the district in the State Assembly. Collier is regarded as a member of the party faction that has been headed by U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren and U.S. Senator William Knowland. Since there was no primary, there...