Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other Republican incumbent: Banker John Hoblitzell, 45, 1956 campaign manager for popular young (35) Republican Governor Cecil Underwood, who was appointed by Underwood to the seat left vacant early this year by the death of Democrat Matt Neely. Hoblitzell is energetic and friendly, but he is also blunt and only a so-so campaigner, admits that he has not cracked the barrier laid out by his Democratic opponent, Glad-Hander Jennings Randolph. At 56, Randolph has served seven terms in Congress, is now a public-relations man for Capital Airlines, rates as one of the state's most effective...
...became Detroit's first archbishop. Sharp, blunt-spoken Archbishop Mooney quickly established himself as a friend of labor and an opponent of Father Coughlin, the rabble-rousing radio priest, whom he muzzled in short order. Between 1935 and 1945, he served several terms as board chairman of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the potent policy-forming association of bishops that acts as the primary voice of the church in the U.S. No one was surprised when Pope Pius XII gave Archbishop Mooney a red hat at the 1946 consistory. Under his leadership, the Catholic population of Detroit doubled-from...
Monty is short with politicians, blunt with those who differed with him. But he shows a sense of humor even about war's more annoying cufuffles, i.e., flaps. And his reflections are diverting, whether he praises female nurses over male, defines the qualities of a good commander (including "an inner conviction which at times will transcend reason"), or sets down what a nation needs to survive the cufuffles of history ("a religion and an educated elite...
...democracy," watched the drift to chaos with mounting disgust. Son of a wealthy Bengal family,*graduate of Britain's Sandhurst, a major general before independence, he had long regarded most politicians as "crooks and scalawags." A Moslem who drinks whisky, smokes, shoots and rides, Mirza has always been blunt about his aristocratic creed: "Democracy requires breeding. These illiterate peasants certainly know less about running a country than I do . . . There has to be someone to prevent the people from destroying themselves...
...months ago lost her campaign for re-election to Italy's Senate-concedes that most of the girls from the shuttered houses as well as the vast majority of the nation's 7,000 formerly licensed streetwalkers will simply join the vast army of clandestine prostitutes. Says blunt Angelina Merlin: "Thirty percent of all women between 15 and 60 give themselves up to prostitution in its various degrees." As for complaints that she has imposed an intolerable hardship on Italy's pridefully hot-blooded males, Signora Merlin last week snorted: "No one ever died of continence...