Word: blunter
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...million in American arms to Taiwan. Peking said very little then, but the strident language emanating from the Chinese these days marks a significant change in attitude. Before Secretary of State Alexander Haig's visit to Peking in June, the Chinese issued a series of warnings, each blunter than the one before, expressing opposition to American arms sales to Taiwan. The outcry culminated in a front-page declaration by the People's Daily, saying that "if the U.S. sells arms to Taiwan again, China will inevitably make a strong response...
...that for the nuns, and even her school mates, her new, deep faith is not good enough. The nuns, who can be shrewd judges of young folly and vanity, some times excuse minor infractions because they feel it takes generations to make their kind of Catholic. The girls are blunter. "When I die," says one beautiful young aristocrat, "my great uncle Cardinal de Wesseldorf and my great-great aunt the Carmelite Abbess de Wesseldorf, who had an affair with Napoleon before she entered, will say to the recording angel: 'My dear sir, you can't seriously send...
Democrats in the Senate were blunter. "Except for his anti-Soviet reflexes, this President has no foreign policy," said Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts. Stormed Alan Cranston of California: "Reagan doesn't have a policy on nuclear nonproliferation. He doesn't have a policy on arms limitations. He's clearly groping for a Mideast policy. He has no human rights policy, and may never have one now. His policy on El Salvador-first he blew it up, then he blew it down. His policy on arms sales is to spew them everywhere. This Administration desperately needs a sense...
Though some coaches encourage holdbacks, many have doubts. Says Ray Latoof, head coach at New Orleans' De La Salle High School: "In some cases, it might help, but many parents have delusions of grandeur." Buddy Windle, head coach at Georgia's Murray County High, is even blunter: "A lot of kids are burned out with football by the time they get to high school. Of twelve players in our senior class who were held back, only four are still on the team. And for every holdback, there's another kid who didn't even come...
...student's view of women at other colleges. "The picture we have about Radcliffe out here is that it is a very bitchy place to be," Oglo says, adding, "But maybe that is just because some of the girls applied there and didn't get in." Trippe offers a blunter assessment: "Wellesley women see the Cliffie bitches as competition for the Harvard...