Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dutch newsmen at The Hague conference, where Indonesia and The Netherlands were trying to settle the status of West New Guinea (or Irian, as the Indonesians call it), knew that negotiations had reached a delicate impasse. It was no time to confront the sensitive Indonesians with a blunt question, so the newsmen last week delicately sounded out Foreign Minister Mohamed Rum. "Are you happy?" they asked. "I am not happy," answered Rum. What he meant was: "The conference has failed. The political weather ahead...
...York, a blunt physical culturist submitted his candidates for the ten most beautiful women in America "if they would only lose ten pounds." Among them-Cinemactress Jane Russell, "four inches too big through the pectoralis muscles, both major and minor"; Actress Denise (Pardon Our French) Parcel, "one of the sexiest figures ever to grace our shores, but she's still ten pounds too sexy"; Tallulah Bankhead, "too much around the rectus abdominis region"; Anne (Kiss Me, Kate) Jeffreys, "a reduction in the gluteus muscles, both maximus and medius, is indicated...
Each year since 1927, when TIME chose its first Man of the Year, the editors have asked themselves the blunt question: Who did most to change the news of the year for better (as Stalin did in 1942 when he pushed back the Germans) or for worse (as Stalin did in 1939 when the Hitler-Stalin pact unleashed World...
...probability that the Communists would strike below the 38th parallel, in spite of all hopes to the contrary, was rapidly building up toward a certainty. One sign was Peking's blunt rebuff of the U.N.'s eager cease-fire committee (see INTERNATIONAL). Another was the slow but ominous massing of Chinese forces in front of the Eighth Army and on its right flank. A third was General MacArthur's warning that 150,000 North Koreans had been regrouped into well-equipped fighting divisions, presumably for service in South Korea. A fourth was a broadcast from Pyongyang...
...year and a half that Edward G. Miller Jr. has been U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, he has scored many a point with sympathetic words and by deft handling of sensitive Latin Americans. Last week Miller peeled off his velvet gloves in a blunt address to U.S. coffeemen and Brazilian guests at the National Coffee Association's convention in Boca Raton, Fla. Miller's message: the U.S. expects Latin America to share in the world struggle against Communist imperialism by adjusting its economy to the realities of the U.S. war-production program. The Latin countries' first tasks...