Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visit the Philippines, and the estranged Philippine business community was only reluctantly taking steps to help Marcos out of a gathering financial crisis, which last week led to a 21.4% devaluation of the peso. From a former U.S. Ambassador to both Iran and the Philippines, meanwhile, came a blunt warning that the struggle to replace Marcos could become a replay of the Iranian revolution...
...arrogant. Former Florida Governor Reubin Askew, 55, might win the March 13 primary in his delegate-rich home state; he complains bitterly that he cannot get the press to pay attention to him anywhere else. George McGovern, 61, seems to be running more to win some attention for his blunt views ("Let's get out of Central America. Bring the Marines out of that religious war in Lebanon") than in any hope that Democrats will forget the disaster he led the party...
Reagan clearly relished delivering such a blunt reminder of the dim view he takes of the U.N.'s frequent impotence in international crises and its often hypocritical denunciations of U.S. policies. It was equally clear, however, that he had no immediate intention of moving beyond rhetoric to any concrete steps that would press the organization to relocate. But his remarks, only days before he was scheduled to address the U.N. General Assembly this week, touched off tremors about the U.N.'s future. After 31 years overlooking Manhattan's East River, the 158 delegations to the U.N. were...
Like Deng, the sayings in Selected Works are blunt and pragmatic. Excerpts...
...though he was persecuted and demoted twice in the turbulent '60s and '70s for opposing Mao's radical views, his published thoughts avoid stirring renewed factionalism by stressing the relevance of much of Mao's thought to the present. At the same time, in blunt and peppery language, Deng denounces Mao's autocratic ways as "feudal" (see box) and the destructive Cultural Revolution as "a big error...