Word: blunter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blunter yet was the Nationalists' unexplained canceling of the visa of NBC Correspondent James Robinson while he was in the U.S. for a news program. Apparent reason: following Robinson's filmed TV interview in May with Chiang Kaishek. NBC angered the Generalissimo by noting he had ducked such questions as what would happen to his government if the U.S. recognized Red China...
...predicted that "industry new-car sales for 1957 should equal or exceed slightly the 5,800,000 sold in 1956"-well below the 6,500,000 figure originally predicted by the industry, and later dropped to 6,000,000. General Motors' President Harlow S. Curtice was even blunter. Sales in 1957 should match 1956, he said, but the year "has not measured up to the industry's expectations. For the second successive year the historical spring rise in sales has failed to materialize...
Craze for Power. The day before, Vice President Radhakrishnan, onetime Oxford don, had been even blunter. "The craze for power and personal ambition [has created] a state of demoralization," he said. These and other signs of political stirring by long-ossified Congress members throughout the country were regarded by the staid Times of India as "an examination of the conscience." The Times thought sadly that the examination might have come too late. "Congress was once a good cause," the paper said. "Now it's degenerating into a bad habit...
...direct reports from the Baltimore Afro-American's William Worthy, one of the three newsmen who entered China in defiance of the ban. To top things off, on the very evening Sevareid was edited off the air, a different CBS deskman in Manhattan passed Ed Murrow's blunter criticism of the State Department's policy: "What it comes down to is that we must refuse to allow ourselves to know about China, because if we did, we would obtain the release of ten American prisoners...
When the full conference met, Attlee turned back two Bevanite maneuvers to make the anti-U.S. attack-even blunter, then pushed through his own platform without trouble...