Word: bluntly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ailment; in Manhattan. Son of a Mississippi River steamboat captain, he began handicapping in 1914, worked at virtually every track in the country before settling down in 1935 to placing weights for the 1,500 races a year at New York's four tracks (Aqueduct, Belmont, Jamaica, Saratoga). Blunt, owlish Louisianian Campbell remained blandly unperturbed by owners' and trainers' protests over his weight assignments, calmly pursued the handicapper's dream, i.e., a race so perfectly handicapped that all entries would finish in a dead heat. He came closer to perfection than any racing secretary...
...failed by 13 votes. But his speech, blunt, sometimes eloquent, always incisive, raised him from the role of gloomy, intellectual Cassandra to the stature of a national figure. Overnight he became, in his own unblinking eyes, a man of destiny. "I have created a hope and trust in the country," he said. "It is now my duty to honor this hope and trust...
...week's end, piqued by Adenauer's blunt remarks, Premier Mendes-France called off the De Beaumont mission...
Terror on Broadway by David Alexander (Random House; $2.75) is written in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to English but is actually Broadwayese. In Novelist Alexander's hands, it is a blunt instrument that he uses to hammer out the unhappy saga of Waldo. Waldo is a psychopathic killer who gets a boyish kick out of playing ticktacktoe with a knife on the bodies of the ladies he dispatches. It is perfectly clear at the very beginning that Waldo is going to be caught by Hero Bart Hardin, editor of the Broadway Times, a journal devoted...
...Craig, a blunt, direct-spoken politician who was governor at 43, did not bury the hatchet. In dispensing state patronage and favors, he ignored followers of Capehart and Jenner. In late December, before the governor had even taken office, Jenner warned: "George Craig will only push me so far." Soon, indeed. Craig encountered stronger resistance. A rebellious state senate, presided over by a Jenner man (and with a 4-to-i G.O.P. majority), took Craig's ambitious program and gave it a severe hacking...