Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dodging stones, a British military attaché showed his contempt for the mob by parading in front of the embassy playing his bagpipes. In his glass-strewn office, Ambassador Gilchrist finally received a delegation of the rioters. A blunt, spade-bearded Scot who once dispersed an anti-British mob in Iceland by playing Chopin records from a phonograph set in his office window, Gilchrist explained to the rioters that the United Nations had sanctioned Malaysia, dismissed them with a contemptuous "Hidup [long live] U Thant...
...first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress last year, Coordinator Teodoro Moscoso fired off a blunt message to his staff. There was, he said, "nothing to celebrate." Last month, when it came time for a second anniversary, Puerto Rico's Moscoso found signs of progress in the ten-year program for social reform and economic development in Latin America. As "brick and mortar" evidence, he noted that U.S. Alliance funds, amounting to $1.5 billion in the past two years, have helped build 140,000 homes, 8,000 classrooms, 1,500 water systems and 900 hospitals and clinics; eleven nations...
...scope and basic inconsistency an insult to the intelligence of the American public." G.O.P. Whip Les Arends, who had never before voted against a foreign aid program, warned that this time he would, unless there were substantial "retrenchment and revision." In private, Republican Leader Charles Halleck uttered his own blunt comment on the bill: "This amount is too damned...
...concept of the neighborhood school. "I'm an educator, not a social worker," he says. "I don't go around counting Negroes, Indians, Hindus or any other group." When a delegation of N.A.A.C.P. leaders from New England states tried to interview him, Willis met their questions with blunt negativism...
Greater Liberty. Within the Church of England, Ramsey has chosen to achieve his goals by conciliation and diplomacy rather than blunt attack. Many of his clergy favor a complete separation of church and state. But Ramsey supports antidisestablishmentarianism, although he wants the church to have "greater liberty to order its own affairs." Recently, Parliament passed a Ramsey-inspired measure that frees church courts from final appeal to the Privy Council. He hopes now to get parliamentary approval for a revision of canon law, which was last codified in 1604, and for the right of bishops to experiment with new liturgical...