Word: bluntest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev yet?" asked Gromyko, who is Stassen's opposite number on the five-man U.N. subcommittee meeting in London to discuss disarmament. Seconds later Stassen found himself in an inner sanctum, peeling grapes with the Kremlin's masters. For two hours he listened to the bluntest Russian talk yet on the subject of disarmament...
Last week Trustbuster Barnes gave G.M. his bluntest warning to date. Unless G.M. checks its approaching monopoly, said Barnes, the Government may have to take "extreme action," including "some rather stringent legislation." General Motors, suggested Barnes, could best reverse the trend by voluntarily spinning off one or more of its divisions as independent corporations...
...John Bratby, 27, who brought gallerygoers up short at his last show with his bluntest tour de force: two stark paintings of a toilet bowl...
...five years, the men of immobilism who had governed France had been found wanting-so wanting that 5,400,000 voters cast their ballots for the Communists and gave the Communists increased representation in Parliament. But the bluntest verdict came from a bookseller whose only program was a refusal to pay taxes, and whose only remedy was to get rid of the old gang. "Throw the rascals out!" cried Pierre Poujade-and 2,400,000 Frenchmen gave him their vote in what Poujade himself called "an explosion of despair...
...Issue Is How. Abroad, the reaction was one of incredulity and mounting disgust. Britain's Anthony Eden issued the bluntest statement in years. "It is clear that what is at stake is the unity of the Western allies. The issue is not whether the German Federal Republic will rearm, but how." In Washington John Foster Dulles suggested that the vote raised a serious question as to France's ability to take the kind of decision required of a responsible ally...