Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Haig joined Begin for breakfast on Friday morning in the Prime Minister's 29th-floor suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, each of the blunt-spoken men knew precisely where the other stood. The previous day, Begin had spoken to Haig on the telephone, telling him that he deeply resented the feeble attempt by the Administration to bully him. For 45 minutes, after their aides had been dismissed, the two men munched Danish pastry, sipped coffee and spoke their minds...
...blunt speech stirs controversy...
Though not drawing back from a quick and blunt attack on the "scourge of abortion," which is legal in Britain, the Pope invoked the need for a "renewed search for Christian unity" and spoke directly to Catholics who are married to non-Catholics. Mixed marriages create "special difficulties," he said, but "you live in your marriage the hopes and difficulties of the path to Christian unity." It was an arresting juxtaposition of elements; no one in the papal party, or in the British hierarchy, had ever before heard the Pontiff put the matter quite this...
...both sides seemed to block the road to peaceful, settlement from the beginning. On the Argentine side, the military junta's own secretive, authoritarian-leadership style blinded it to international realities and locked it into a position from which retreat was almost impossible. The junta disregarded the blunt warning from Secretary of State Haig that "U.S. friendship would be at risk" if the Argentines attacked. According to Washington analysts, the original decision to invade was made by a handful of top-ranking officers without even consulting the corps commanders who would have to carry on the fighting. Suddenly saddled...
...spends hours turning back and forth between the word processor and a desk that once belonged to his father. He refers to one of the remarkable diaries he kept so doggedly through his four years. Each evening, no matter how tired he was, he dictated his feelings-often blunt and troubled-into a tape recorder. Six thousand pages of transcripts, a historian's treasure, now fill dozens of black books on shelves that surround his desk...