Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choosing two rare Italian scenes in watercolor by John Singer Sargent-Venice's La Dogana (Customs House) and Villa di Marlia-the First Lady explained that she had been to both places and that the villa was now owned by a friend of hers, the Countess Pecci-Blunt...
...Soviet Moslems now have a blunt reminder that the religious tolerance they were enjoying is no willing concession. An article in the leading newspaper of Kazakhstan, where many Russian Moslems live, pointed out that the basic Soviet attitude toward Islam is as hostile as it is toward all other religions. The followers of Mohammed, said Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, submit to a "profoundly reactionary'' religion. The paper accused the Moslem clergy of not encouraging the cause of socialism, of not teaching their congregations "to study or investigate the phenomena of life, since this life, according to the Koran, is only...
Thompson had to chase Khrushchev halfway across Russia to deliver his message, finally caught up with him at Novosibirsk. 1.750 miles east of Moscow, and settled down for a four-hour discussion. With direct implication that his words were those chosen by President Kennedy himself. Thompson made the blunt declaration that the U.S. is dead serious in its desire to make Laos neutral. When the U.S. said neutrality, added Thompson, it meant (as it has not always in the past) complete neutrality. Thompson offered specifics of what the U.S. was prepared to do. provided the Russians were prepared to reciprocate...
...would soon move in with force on the squabbling provincial bosses and take away their armies. With one voice, the leaders-Congolese President Joseph Kasavubu and Premier Joseph Ileo, Kasai Province's Albert Kalonji, Katanga Province's Moise Tshombe, and a covey of others-sent blunt warning to the U.N. to refrain from force and take no action until the Congo's black rulers could come up with a solution of their own. Then, to everyone's astonishment, the Congolese did just that...
Died. James J. Caffrey, 63, blunt Boston lawyer, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1946 to 1947, onetime SEC investigator whose doggedness helped expose McKesson & Robbins President Philip Musica and former New York Stock Exchange President Richard Whitney as stock swindlers; of a heart attack; in Durban, South Africa...