Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shock in store for Sukarno, who hitherto has enjoyed almost complete freedom from criticism. Though many army officers have participated in separatist revolts in East Indonesia and Sumatra (TIME. Dec. 31), Army Chief of Staff General Abdul Haris Nasution has been unswervingly loyal to Sukarno. Last week, in a blunt, private session with the President. Good Soldier Nasution told Sukarno flatly that taking Communists into the government could well lead to all-out civil war. A high-ranking Moslem politician was still more forthright. "If the Communists come in," he said, "we will take to the hills...
...vote of thanks to Charles Wilson, not alone for what he has accomplished as Secretary of Defense, but even more for what he has tried to do in his blunt, honest way to cut through the muddled poli-thinking of Government today. Poli-thinking is a political phenomenon resulting from men having both ears to the ground-a position which naturally prevents keeping one eye on the future. If the National Guard, Air Force, Army, Marines or Navy are not prepared to fulfill their defense missions, it is his job to tell Congress. Too bad there aren't more...
...foot the bills for "the luxuries and extravagances" of opera stars paid $1,500 a performance (actually a lot less than was paid 30 years ago). Tenor Mario Del Monaco volunteered to accept a pay cut "if other singers will do likewise." There were no takers, but one blunt comment from Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas: "La Scala can close down as far as I am concerned; I will never lack for a stage...
...midst of lecturing in the U.S., Sir John Tresidder Sheppard, former provost of King's College, Cambridge University, issued a blunt warning to U.S. literature teachers. "This custom you have of the quiz." said he, "is very dangerous. To read with a view of being examined is impious. It's wicked! It's impossible to read with happiness when you're looking out for what the old boy, or the old girl, is going...
...Thompson's testimony was short and typically blunt. The oil crisis, said he, is a myth. Instead of sabotaging the oil lift by failing to boost production appreciably, Texas had done a "jam-up job," had helped make it "amazingly successful, all reports to the contrary notwithstanding." Texas was sorry that the world was angry at its actions. "We are accustomed to that," said Thompson. The facts were that the U.S. Government had not once officially demanded an increase in the allowable production set for the state's oilmen. The requests had come from Humble Refining...