Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glory of Freedom. It was into this atmosphere that NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak stepped one afternoon with a blunt suggestion: As a next step, why shouldn't Ike and Macmillan both attend the NATO conference in Paris next December? Both probably will...
...lesson that John Foster Dulles carried away from the Korean war was that the Communists would never have attacked had they been certain that the U.S. was willing to go to war. Last week Secretary of State Dulles used his press conference to hand the Russians as blunt a warning as they are ever likely to get: if they launch any attack on NATO Part ner Turkey, even under the guise of going to the aid of Red-lining Syria, there will be war with...
...initiation: an austere cell so cold that the holy-water stoup is sometimes frozen; the regimen of the "custody of the eyes," i.e., never letting them stray from a modest downward glance; the "instruments of penance," ranging from a scourging cord to metal knee and elbow bracelets studded with blunt-tipped nails. As early as her fifth day, Sister Ursula feels "a dreadful sick sensation as though an immense and clammy toad had settled just below my diaphragm...
Acheson also sharply criticized the recent "drastic" reductions in Army power and the Navy's "disproportionate" concentration on atomic submarines and large carriers. He then asked whether Secretary of State Dulles' policy of "massive retaliation" is "credible," and answered his own question with a blunt...
...blunt talk about defense cuts Charlie made it clear that he knew that in his final months he had let military spending (see below) get away from him, made it equally clear that he would characteristically try to repair the damage right down to his last minute in the Pentagon. Inevitably, during the nostalgic levity, the immortal "good for General Motors" misquotation came up again, and once more Wilson explained what it was he really had said. Then, grinning broadly, he added: "I have never been too embarrassed over the thing, stated either way." The newsmen laughed-this time with...