Word: bluntly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ignoring her garrulous sailor husband on his brief visits home. Never able to compromise, to "say with fools and saints, it was for the best," Sylvia's hard shell cracked only once-when her son's plane was shot down in the War. Old age found her blunt-speaking, crotchety as ever, her only weakness dreaming of foreign ports and cities she had known as a girl. Death, when at long last it came, found her still unreconciled with life...
Although the Prime Minister was not as clear and definitely not as blunt in his Danzig warning as Nazi officials usually are, he in effect served notice that Britain did not think the Germans could win their lightning-war. And the British Government fitted actions to its words...
...four years a blunt-nosed, puffinlike paddle steamer has chuffed and tootled around the Isle of Wight, the emeraldy little English-Channel island few miles off the Hampshire coast. Proud was the paddle boat's name: Mauretania. Thus
...blunt, Mr. Mayor, Harvard has been the goat too often. The power to tax is the power to destroy, and a contribution such as Cambridge asks would be as regularly imposed as any tax. It is refreshing to realize that President Conant was not born yesterday...
...anger he is cold and biting, but he never explodes in barrack bluster. A sure way to anger George Marshall is to ask him to change his mind when he has once made it up. No fretter, he can be so blunt as to offend strangers who mistake his abrupt decisiveness for insult. Yet his colleagues account him a warm and friendly fellow...