Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most magazines of opinion, blunt-speaking Commonweal has always had hard sledding. For three years (1943-45), it managed to break even. But it has never been nearer folding than now-not even in 1938 when, unlike most Catholic journals, it refused to support Franco and thus lost almost a fourth of its readers...
Keep the Change. Even for Texas, Hugh Cullen is a strange sort of angel for any university. He is a big, blunt man whose own schooling lasted exactly three years. At twelve, he was working in a candy store for $3 a week, at 17, was running a small cotton business. From there, he drifted into prospecting for oil, and after ten years of wildcatting, finally struck it rich. At Blue Ridge, outside of Houston, he hit a gusher. After that, he lost track of how many millions...
...behalf of the 8,000,000 Bantu who do not (possibly cannot) read quality magazines, I would like to shout bayete! bayete! to TIME, Sept. 3 for putting its blunt finger on Johannesburg, South Africa's sorest spot...
...Arab bourgeois but no man's collar. Between the two world wars he plied his profession as a financial expert all through the Middle East-in Jordan, Palestine, Syria-and won little popularity or following because of the backroom nature of his job and because of his blunt frankness. But he is regarded as an honest man, a mark of true distinction in Middle East politics...
...without love for their fellows because they are without love for God. In his zeal, he also seems to be saying that love can express itself-in Africa, at least-only through Catholicism. As a novel, The Mango on the Mango Tree becomes a highly literate parable loaded with blunt proselytism...