Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...avoid any hint of "McCarthyism." Said Herbert Morrison, during whose tenure the pair escaped: "After all, the noblest band of men in history had their Judas ... If they had been arrested and ultimately found innocent, that would have brought discredit ..." Only a few were so rude as to be blunt. The truth is, snapped Laborite Alfred Robens, that there was "a close circle of 'coverup' for one's friends [in the Foreign Office], How can it be that a couple of drunks, a couple of homosexuals well known in this city could for so long occupy important...
...enough to set off a fever of speculation in the press, and the speculation was enough to send the faithful aide winging into exile, as air attache in Britain's embassy in Brussels. Alerted by Royal Secretary Alan Lascelles, Winston Churchill himself had given the new Queen some blunt advice: get rid of him. Elizabeth complied, but at their last meeting she was careful to shake Peter Townsend's hand in public with a smile that seemed to many onlookers a token of encouragement...
...blunt words, President Eduardo Lonardi reported to his people last week on the state of the country's economy^ Argentina, he said, is like "a man eaten up by cancer, who looks healthy and capable of work until he suddenly falls down dead." The shocking facts of what had happened under Juan Peron...
...court did not hand down its decision until July 6. But when it came, it said in blunt language that Brattle Films, Inc., had won without trouble. Justice Wilkins wrote in the decision, "We think that (the Sunday censorship law) is void on its face as a prior restraint on the freedom of speech and of the press guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments...It is unthinkable that there is a power, absent as to secular days, to require the submission to advance scrutiny by governmental authority of newspapers to be published on Sunday, or sermons to be preached...
...Wellman has set up in his CinemaScope panel some splendid images of human mass in roil and flow, and Cameraman William H. Clothier has almost magically cajoled California into looking like China, with the gauzy seascapes, the abstract arrangements of seines in sunlight and the ochred skies. But the blunt point of the pictute is to display John Wayne to best advantage-stripped in a bathtub, bloody at the wheel, phlegmatically stirring his bayonet around inside a Communist. As usual, he makes a more convincing display than most of Hollywood's he-men can. And when Lauren asks...