Word: blunt
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...handily aborted by U.S. authorities. It professed to be secret instructions from Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon to U.S. diplomatic posts in South America. Orders were to pressure Latin American governments to stay away from a Castro-sponsored "Conference of Hungry Nations" scheduled to meet in Havana. "A blunt approach will be necessary," the forgery read. It was supposed to surface in Guatemala, but U.S. agents intercepted a copy along the way, and circulated it even before the original forgery had time to arrive in Guatemala...
When the small, dark-haired woman walked into Milan's La Piccola Scala, a stagehand took one look at her flushed, distracted face and called for the doctor. Her maid, hovering worriedly in the background, suggested a psychiatrist. Her husband was blunt: "Now I know what it's like to live with a madwoman." But three hours later, Soprano Graziella Sciutti, 29, was out before the curtain receiving one of the biggest ovations of her career. The part she had played to perfection: the title role in a rarely performed opera by Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816), Nina, ossia...
Norstad is not the only man dissatisfied with the idea that only the U.S. should possess the capacity for total atomic warfare; the Pentagon, Harold Macmillan, and Konrad Adenauer have all in one fashion or another complained of NATO's inability to do anything more than "blunt and delay" an enemy attack through its ground and air forces. These murmurings have had their results. Last November, Robert R. Bowie of the Center for International Affairs presented a report to Washington recommending that the U.S. (1) strengthen conventional non-nuclear forces in Europe, and (2) provide NATO forces with strategic nuclear...
...CUBA. Hours after a parade of his new Soviet tanks and artillery. Dictator Fidel Castro suddenly confronted the U.S. with a blunt and drastic demand: within 48 hours, the U.S. had to reduce its embassy and consulate staffs in Cuba to a total of eleven persons (the embassy staff alone totaled 87 U.S. citizens, plus 120 Cuban employees). President Eisenhower held an 8:30 a.m. meeting with top military and foreign-policy advisers, decided to break off diplomatic relations immediately. "There is a limit to what the United States in self-respect can endure," said the President. "That limit...
...readjustment," but John Kennedy has already declared it to be a "recession." If recession it is, Kennedy will suffer from no lack of advice on how to cure it, for he is surrounding himself with a luminous little galaxy of economists from the "activist" school that believes in blunt talk, Government-inspired growth rates, and far-out federal measures to prime the pump. Last week the advice was raining down to the steady beat of one theme: more Government spending, conspicuously including deficit spending...