Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After this blunt reference to recent statements by German leaders in the dispute with France over the Saarland (TIME, Feb. 6), McCloy said: "Agitation of foreign issues, however tempting, cannot distract attention from vital domestic issues and from the pressing need for domestic reforms...
...wall of a Paris gallery last week. The colors and surface textures of all five pictures were as alike as peas in a pod; the only apparent thing that distinguished the four reproductions from Braque's original was the trademark "Aeply" in their margins. Braque passed a blunt forefinger over one of the pictures. "This is amazing," he said. "These pictures are more than mere reproductions; they are reconstitutions of the original." Added Braque: "But the artist must still produce an original work before these facsimiles can be made...
...first place, the characteristic campaign letter-to graduates, nobles, prelates and merchants-was admirably blunt. If the money was to repair a building, the writer left nothing to the imagination. "No one dares to enter the building," ran one appeal for the school of canon law. "It is surprising that the wind does not bring it down, for the foundations are so far gone as to be beyond repair...
...glossed over. With Grant only an offstage noise in these first volumes, Williams' real heroes are the shrewd and patient Lincoln, efficient Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and the fighting soldiers of the Union army. Williams winds up his critique of the Battle of Gettysburg with this blunt praise: "It would seem that every possible excuse has been put forward to explain Lee's failure at Gettysburg. But the real explanation can be given in three words: the Union army...