Word: blunter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making its choice, West Germany pushed French Premier Laniel and his government to a point where France could not much longer delay its choice. With West Germany's strength badly needed in the cold-war defense line, France had to choose the European Army or risk some blunter solution that puts Germans back into their own feldgrau uniforms, with their own high command. Jauntily expectant that a decision is in the offing, Bonn's "Bureau Blank," the embryonic West German war ministry, last week placed an ad in the newspapers: "Wanted: 500 clerks, secretaries and interpreters ... Must...
...them, Actor Arthur Macrae, thinks it more deliberate than careless: "After all, Charles is a funny-looking sort of fellow, and he knows it. There's no sense trying to have an air of an 18th century courtier when you look like that." Laughton, even blunter about his appearance, says flatly: "I have a face like the behind of an elephant...
Political problems were another headache. "In Forward from Liberalism I argued that Liberals must reconcile Communist social justice with their liberal regard for social freedom, and . . . accept the methods . . . necessary ... to defeat Fascism." In blunter words, Spender became a Communist, and went off to Civil War Spain for the London Daily Worker...