Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week after 36 years of service: the Navy's most decorated (Medal of Honor, D.S.C., five . Silver Stars, three Purple Hearts, etc.) medic, Rear Admiral Joel Thompson Boone, 61, medical adviser to Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. Retired after 40 years: Lieut. General Clarence R. Huebner, 62, blunt commander of the 1st Division, former commanding general, U.S. Army in Europe, who started his Army career as a private. The Air Force granted a retirement request from Major General Orvil A. Anderson, 55, relieved as commandant of the Air War College, after an interview in which he proposed...
...conferences in the Kremlin during those August days in 1942 were sharp and exhausting. Winston Churchill's mission was to explain to Stalin why the cross-Channel invasion would have to be delayed. By turns Stalin was truculent, sardonic, accusing; Churchill direct, blunt, vehement. At last the sessions ended in common understanding, if not complete agreement, and Stalin suggested a "few drinks" in his apartment in the Kremlin. Certainly, said Winston Churchill...
Ending nine years of Government service, blunt, hard-driving Stantori Griggis, 63, resigned last week as U.S. ambassador to Argentina in order to enjoy a "sabbatical period of rest and study." In his 14 months in Argentina, Griffis had concentrated mainly on improving U.S.-Argentine trade relations. At week's end, Washington had not announced a successor...
Like any other college, Yale, which already last year suffered a deficit, would encounter a temporary drop in enrollment if a full scale draft program went into effect. It has been CODAM's assignment to devise plans which would blunt the ill effects of a draft...
...High Commissioner John J. McCloy felt last week that it was time for Americans to say a word or two. In the High Commission's German-language Neue Zeitung appeared a blunt statement of the High Commission's views. It was addressed both to the Germans and the intransigent French...