Word: bluntest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such would be to give her a legal foothold in South Korea; the U.N. had gone quite far enough by its willingness to accept as neutrals the Soviet stooges, Czechoslovakia and Poland. But the Communist negotiators stick stubbornly to the demand, even though the U.N. has said (in its bluntest words yet) that its position is "firm, final and irrevocable." Even if this issue can be settled, there remains the question of exchanging prisoners, and of permitting North Korea to build up airfields during the truce...
Obviously Candidate Dewey had not hurt his political standing any by his social behavior. Not only had he expressed his feelings about Commies in the bluntest possible way, he had also shown that he was no man to break bread with a Red and like it. And except for the Reds and their friends, no one could work up much indignation over the governor's manners. Even the professionally proper could only cluck disapprovingly. "What he said was entirely true," said the Times, "but there is a time and place for everything...
...bluntest of a series of speeches on his tour of the West, the President said the United States recently has been "unable to be of any assistance at all to the people of China...