Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours before the U.N. was scheduled to meet on the China issue, John McCormack rose to present a resolution to the House. It was blunt and to the point: "The United Nations should immediately act and declare the Chinese Communist authorities an aggressor in Korea...
...professional fighting man returned from Korea last week and blurted a professional's blunt views of the difficulties and frustrations involved in a United Nations police action. "I applaud the United Nations aims and ideals," said the Air Force's Major General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, "but it makes a poor strategic headquarters from which, to fight...
Sale's blunt talk echoed far beyond the high-ceilinged Royal York Hotel ballroom. Within a few days he received more than 100 applauding letters from private citizens. One of them, from a retired political leader, said: "This is the speech the people of Canada have been waiting for. It sharpens the sense of our peril and our shame...
Giuseppe Verdi came from peasant stock and never lost the blunt imprint. But the composer of some of the most moving and impassioned operas ever written-Trovatore, Traviata, Rigoletto, Aïda, Otello-remained a hard man only outwardly. Verdi's music eloquently tells the story of the inner man. And so, in a way, did his will...
...seems commonplace, passionless, unbreathed upon. King Lear contains half a dozen roles stamped with Shakespeare's maturest genius. But the production is a tangle of acting styles-an Edmund sinuous as an Oriental dancer, a Goneril straight out of melodrama; perhaps only Martin Gabel's blunt, forthright Kent keeps its outline. Round the play's great lonely poetic peaks roar the cold winds of human evil and malign fate, the bleak message that...