Word: bluntly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think the correction is really important because Professor McLaughlin yesterday made the feeling of the other opponents practically effective. Certain members of the hearing committee are so ignorant and yet so conceited that implications mean nothing to them. They must be told in the blunt language that Professor McLaughlin used what educated folk think of them. When, for instance, the professor said of heckler McDermott, "I am not accustomed to speaking to people who do not know what I am talking about," the applause of the audience was universal and prolonged. In the face of this response...
...mighty bear has momentarily ceased his savage growls. He is still stalking his rightful prey, but with a sort of grim humor he has reared himself upon his hind legs and is waving his murderous paw with a delicate and artistic grace. To be sure, Gulliver is brutally blunt at times. For example, when he suspects that he is dealing with a species of miniature greed and exploitation, he roars out a stentorian refutation of the whining little fawners' claims, and sends them quaking and tumbling before the blast. There's nothing shilly-shally about "The New Gulliver"; it takes...
...Newshawks pressed the President for confirmation of Wall Street rumors that more dollar tinkering was soon to be expected, received blunt assurance that the rumors were "just another of those things" -baseless...
...molars, go forward along the gums to the bicuspids. From there the inner bars of the W go inward across the roof of the mouth until they meet at a point midway between the molars. This cutting makes three gores in the roof of the mouth. With a blunt knife Dr. Vaughan separates the two rear gores from the palatine bone. This allows him to slide the soft palate, to which they are attached, backward to the rear wall of the throat. The loose flaps of membrane he then stitches to new positions on the palatine bone. By the time...
...point with an additional turn of Ciceronian rhetoric. As in all State of the Union messages to Congress, President Roosevelt surveyed the world at large, assaying U. S. international relations. Naming no names, the man who Republicans pretend to fear may become a U. S. dictator, said some hard, blunt things about dictatorships which made Italy and Germany wince (see p. 16). Excerpts...