Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson. One of the strongest anti-Communist nations in Southeast Asia, Thailand was fast losing its faith in the U.S. after the debacle in neighboring Laos. Johnson set the mood for his reassuring talks with Sarit by stopping off at Bangkok's SEATO headquarters building to deliver a blunt statement. "It is sometimes difficult to understand how a man-or a nation-can treasure liberty for himself," said Johnson, his voice sharpening as he spoke, "and be totally unconcerned for it when it involves other people in his own backyard." The Thais were delighted by Johnson's pointed...
Grand Strategy. As a Unilever subsidiary, United Africa has its own chairman, burly, blunt Arthur H. Smith, 56, who bosses the company's week-to-week operations. .But Unilever's Cole, himself a veteran of 38 years of African business experience, still makes the long-range financial decisions and has the final word on United Africa's grand strategy. His own explanation of United Africa's success: "When there's a change of wind, it simply means you alter your sails. If you do it right, you may even sail faster...
...blunt but expressive Midwestern term," he said, "we must 'put our money where our mouth...
...rush to select a scapegoat, most newsmen nominated the Central Intelligence Agency. "America would be safer," said the Raleigh News and Observer, if CIA Chief Allen Dulles "were allowed to depart, taking his frayed cloak and blunt dagger with him into private life." Chicago's American indicted the CIA for "a gigantic goof," and even Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt suggested mildly that the CIA "was not very well informed...
...Choice. De Gaulle offered the F.L.N. a blunt alternative: freedom in association with France, or a partitioned Algeria. In the event that Algeria chose to sever all ties, he warned, the Europeans, who "too have the right of self-determination," would "have to be relocated by us and their protection assured." And he vowed to deport the 400,000 Algerian Moslems who dig the ditches and clear the streets of Metropolitan France- and whose remittances keep some 2,000,000 of their relatives back home alive. "Naturally, we should cease immediately to sink in a henceforth hopeless enterprise our resources...