Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marshal Alphonse Juin, 65, first 'soldier of France, vice president of France's national defense council, commander in chief of the Central European forces of NATO. For publicly and roundly condemning the proposed European Army (which he was likely to command if it should máterialize), blunt, impetuous Marshal Juin was summoned personally by Premier Joseph Laniel to the Hotel Matignon to give an account of his actions...
...press got its first look at the movie film of the first hydrogen bomb blast at Eniwetok in 1952 (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), it also got a blunt warning. The 175 Washington newsmen who gathered in the Department of the Interior's auditorium were told that the H-bomb pictures and descriptions of them were not to be released until April 7-a full week away-so that magazines and newsreel producers would get an even break with the daily press, radio and TV. But within 24 hours after the briefing, H-bomb pictures and descriptive stories were spread over...
Your March 1 article . . . was excellent. However, I feel you leaned over backwards in his favor. I find McCarthy to be highly excitable, truculent and apprehensive when working under pressure . . . His manner is blunt, brusque and certainly inconsiderate . . . Surely there is some way to get this man on the right track and let him fight Communism to the fullest and still keep him from undermining our Government, which at this time needs all the help...
Dunlop adjusts to his double life with a blunt, plain spoken charm which can put both students and labor leaders at case. His students talk of his habit of referring to the biggest men in labor and management by their first names. The head of the AF of L is "George," the Secretary of Labor "Jim." At a beer party he threw for his class, one student asked him about the recent resignation of Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin...
...ailing, too tired for the job . . . The blunt truth is that Churchill's continued rule in 10 Downing Street has become a disaster to his party and to the country," shrilled London's tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,000,000). As if to make a mockery of such talk, Churchill put on his liveliest show in weeks...