Word: bluntly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most encouraging and refreshing to have such an official like Wilson. As the President suggested, Secretary Wilson could have been more tactful, but his blunt statements have certainly succeeded in calling the nation's attention to the problems at hand, whether or not we agree with him. More power...
Classic poetry, a favorite preoccupation of scholars, has been in low repute in China since the advent of Communism. The subtle ideograms of the poet's traditional language have little in common with the blunt ideologies of modern Marxism, and for that reason China's top Communist, Mao Tse-tung, has long had to dissemble the fact that he is a workaday poet himself...
...individual be so cruel?" cried one writer. "I have never seen such cruel, carping criticism of even the trashiest book!" exclaimed another. The Review received a cascade of letters, the vast majority attacking Ciardi's review. Most were from women, and they assailed Ciardi's blunt rancor more than his assessment. There were, however, rumbles from men readers as well. Historian Geoffrey Bruun solemnly declared: "Ciardi exceeded his privileges as a poetry editor to insult a sincere and sensitive writer." Another writer protested: "Why take a baseball bat to club a butterfly...
...Wilson instead of spending his time commenting on how wonderful Foster Dulles has been. I think Foster Dulles is a good man too, but I don't think that he has done any better than a lot of other men." Her husband, she said, "is a blunt man. He speaks what he thinks." And with a noble and unswerving wifely loyalty that clearly marked Charlie Wilson as a true prophet in his own house, she added: "Most of the time what he thinks is true." Asked whether she wished that Charlie would resign from the Cabinet, Jessie Wilson said...
...Yourself. Calling the workers together on his first day. Rackley made a blunt mill-yard speech. Jessop could survive, said he, if everyone contributed extra work without pay and accepted back pay in company stock. Then he led the workers in prayer. The union local president stood up and said: "The guy makes sense...