Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Defense Secretary Robert McNamara stood at complete and unmilitary ease behind the lectern on the stage of the State Department auditorium. In cool and well-punctuated sentences, with never an uh or an er, he recited fact after fact, figure after figure, in response to the blunt questions of newsmen...
...might have been gentle about it, allowing negotiations to sputter out in a confusion of details. He chose to be blunt...
...hotel industry today is at a point of crisis." This was the blunt message that Roger P. Sonnabend, thoughtful, 37-year-old executive vice president of Hotel Corp. of America, recently delivered to a convention hall full of his competitors. Scarcely anyone in his audience was prepared to disagree-or to deny that the U.S. hotel industry has been heedlessly drifting toward the crisis point for more than a decade...
...FOREIGN AID: U.S. military and foreign aid added some $3 billion to the payments deficit in 1962, and, says Treasury Under Secretary Robert Roosa, "the blunt fact is that these claims on our balance of payments will continue...
...Manhattan department store salesman. Dale was a blunt redhead with a lifelong fascination for fire engines. He began playing the horses when he was 14, later joined a Wall Street firm that specialized in railroad bonds, was one of the first to make a fortune out of the sale of public utility securities. His wife Maud had a passion for art that proved contagious. "She had the knowledge.'' Dale said. "I had the acquisitiveness.'' And that was how the great collection began...