Word: blunter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short-wave listener in Chungking heard the explanation put in blunter terms by BBC's announcer: "You see," he explained, "the man in the street has no time to think of the Japanese war of aggression against China these days." Sadly realizing that being abandoned and forgotten by sorely-pressed Britons makes China's future no less dependent on Britain's, the short-wave listeners crouched around their speakers, fearing that awful thing which was so exclusively on the mind of the men in London's streets...
...impatient Loyal Opposition in Parliament demanded action. Eloquent Laborite Herbert S. Morrison wanted "more vigor and liveliness" in war and diplomacy than he felt Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who turned 71 at week's end, has been giving. Retired Permanent Secretary to the Treasury Sir Warren Fisher was blunter. "We are up against the creed of the devil," he said...