Word: bluntly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Treasury not only has shaped the grand design of Eisenhower economic policy, but is now the unquestioned strong man of the Cabinet, and one of Ike's closest advisers. Hurnphrey sees the President frequently, talks to him more frequently by telephone. Ike likes Humphrey's blunt honesty and his ability to make decisions in any field. When Secretary Dulles was stricken in the midst of the Suez crisis, the President instinctively turned to Humphrey for counsel, and Ike's own confidence in Humphrey radiates through the Cabinet. After the President's heart attack, Cabinet officers gravitated...
...heller on a £3OO-a-year allowance from an indulgent uncle. Still in his teens, he ran guns for the Carlist forces in Spain, ran into debt, had an affair with a mysterious femme fatale called Rita. An absurd expatriate from North Carolina named Captain Blunt shot and wounded Conrad in a duel over that lady's honor. For no better reason than that he liked the cut of an English jib, Conrad took off for life with the British merchant service...
...result, after a series of visits by smoothly operating Detective Herbert ("The Count") Hannam, was the arrest of kindly Dr. Adams. Last week, in a preliminary court hearing to determine whether the doctor should stand trial for murder, a prosecutor for the Crown declared in so many blunt words that Mrs. Morrell had not died of cerebral thrombosis, but "because she was poisoned by drugs which Dr. Adams administered...
...play is often uproarious farce through the blunt savagery of its incidents. There are wild moments involving the Other Woman or all the other women; there are aborted female "suicides" and aborted man-of-honor duels; and there is Mildred Natwick, as the wife, gorgeously spewing bedroom billingsgate and hilariously shifting from an invalid's helplessness to an athlete's violence. But out of the mouth of farce-like cold water from the mouth of a fountain gargoyle-flows a stream of cold wisdom. Anouilh uses the coarse, truthful exaggerations of caricature deliberately to offset the genteel evasions...
...cannot tell you how exciting it is," he wrote to his close friends, "to hold in my two hot hands a large part of the striking power of the Navy. Others may pull the strings and add to or lessen my frustrations, strengthen or weaken, sharpen or blunt the weapon before it is handed to me; but it is I who have it. It is mine to shape and polish, inspire or confound, instruct or confuse, ready or sheathe, and employ wisely or foolishly...