Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blunt Answer. Part of Arkansas' economic growth was a natural result of the postwar boom. But a great deal of it was due to the energy of Ham Moses and the Arkansas Economic Council and community development program which he inspired. Until recently, Arkansas was especially celebrated as a butt for bad jokes by Northerners. In 1944, Ham Moses went to New York to sell $35 million worth of Arkansas Power & Light bonds, was laughed out of many a Wall Street office. He finally sold the bonds, but, he said: "Everybody thought we were just a state of hillbillies...
...behind him, Andrews passed his state Certified Public Accountant exams at 22 (a record at the time), went on to reach the top of his profession as president (1950-51) of the American Institute of Accountants. A Democrat, he liked Ike but took no active part in the campaign. Blunt, hard-driving Coleman Andrews trod on many a toe as Richmond city comptroller and Virginia state auditor, and friends predict he will spare no toes as the nation's chief tax collector...
...London last week, the BBC somewhat nervously invited Sir Gerald Kelly to take charge of a TV tour of an exhibit of Dutch pictures at the Royal Academy. Sir Gerald, a peppery, blunt-talking, 74-year-old Irishman, is famed both as president of the academy and as painter of over 40 portraits of his wife ("I paint her because I don't think anyone has a prettier wife," he once explained...
...Beedle" Smith came up from the enlisted ranks. He began as a private in the Indiana National Guard, was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in World War I, then climbed the Regular Army ladder until, in World War II, he was chief of staff to Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower. Blunt-spoken and incisive, he took the surrender first of the Italians and then of the Germans. After the war, he served as U.S. Ambassador in Russia; his book, My Three Years in Moscow, gave a notable delineation of the Communist enemy pitted against freedom in the cold...
Last year more people (2,263,336) went to New York's Metropolitan Museum than to the Yankee Stadium. Twelve years ago, the Met attracted only half that number. The box-office increase is largely credited to the epigrammatical, blunt showman who for twelve years has been the museum's director: Francis Henry Taylor. Says Taylor: "Showmanship should never show. But if you haven't got it, you have the kiss of death...