Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are important moments when a U.S. Secretary of State, proclaiming the principles of national policy, should be blunt, uncompromising and direct. There are equally important moments-and more of them-when a Secretary, aware that he speaks for his country, should be guarded in expressing judgments on the international situation, or should just keep his mouth shut. John Foster Dulles last week gave striking examples of how to state policy...
...Libs. The day after his blunt, well-prepared St. Louis speech, Foster Dulles had a press conference at his Washington office. He led off with another well-prepared policy statement, again fixing the blame on the Russians for Germany's continued division. But when one reporter asked him what he thought about the German elections (see FOREIGN NEWS), the Secretary started ad-libbing. A defeat of Christian Democrat Konrad Adenauer, said Dulles flatly, would be "disastrous " for both Germany and the cause of German unity...
Benson's original policy statements were perhaps too blunt and badly timed. Drought and falling prices were affecting farmers and cattlemen from Ohio to Texas, and they were getting worried. At just that moment the Administration spoke its piece. By the time I reached the Midwest and the plains states opinion seemed to be firming up that Ike would have to be notified that the farm program would have to stay as is, and that if he didn't accept the notification, a lot of farmers would go back to voting Democratic...
...average whodunit never solves its most conspicuous crime-the murder of the King's English. But there are a few mystery writers who do not use the pen as a blunt instrument. Such are Britain's Howard Clewes and the late F. L. Green.* Neither An Epitaph for Love nor Ambush for the Hunter will floor anyone with surprises, but each crackles with suspense and crisp, literate prose...
...Change. The Gibson Girl of half a century ago, whaleboned into an hourglass shape, almost never heard the word "sex." It was a relatively new scientific term, to be distinguished from "love," which was too idealized, and "lust," which was too blunt...