Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week confrontation with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko over Berlin, the President was cool and collected, making it clear that the U.S., while willing to negotiate, would not be bludgeoned to the conference table. Meeting Thailand's Foreign Minister Nai Thanat Khoman, Kennedy expressed his blunt concern that some Southeast Asian nations seemed less than enthusiastic about fighting in defense of their own freedom...
...participant as "perfectly genial, perfectly agreeable." Behind the geniality, of course, was the deadly serious purpose of finding out whether a Berlin compromise is possible. The seriousness was acknowledged by Gromyko. who has developed into an inveterate knee-tapper, prodding his own and his opponents' knees with a blunt finger for emphasis; although Gromyko speaks English reasonably well, he insisted on conducting the Rusk negotiations in Russian through an interpreter to make sure that no word was lost or misunderstood. And indeed much of the talk concerned words. The men around the table sounded more like semanticists than diplomats...
...Frank & Blunt." A "breakfast meeting" with President Kennedy stretched nearly into lunch, and the talk-called "frank and blunt" by an official-was plainly fascinating. Frondizi thanked Kennedy for past U.S. aid, outlined future needs. Unlike many such pleas, Argentina's request was backed by accomplishment. Maneuvering his way past leftist and nationalist road blocks, Frondizi opened the government-monopoly oilfields to private foreign companies; in two years they produced so much oil that Argentina no longer spends $300 million annually on petroleum, even has the beginnings of an exportable surplus. Frondizi is unloading wasteful, government-run enterprises from...
...Power lies in making sense--this is a kind of sovereignty." Monro indicated he thought this power could be exercised effectively by a representative group "because of the nature of our community." Such a group could open channels for "blunt expression" of opinions in the tradition of New England town meetings...
...that it would be able to win the votes for a temporary administrator. Secretary Rusk came out in the open and said that this is what the U.S. wants-not without earning a rebuke from unnamed delegates, quoted in the New York Times, who seemed terrified that such relatively blunt language would annoy that new deity of the U.N., The Nonaligned...