Word: bluntly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late in June, ailing Bob Taft looked at work done by the 83rd Congress and made a blunt, Taft-like observation: "It's not much of a record." Then he added: "But there was the problem of a new Government, of getting turned around." This week, as members of the 83rd were turning toward home, the two parts of Bob Taft's summation could be combined into one: the 83rd had made a slow, but not a bad start...
...free food was the most successful U.S. diplomatic stroke in Europe since the Berlin airlift. Disturbed and angered, the East German Communists tried every way they could think of to blunt it. Their newspapers warned of retaliation against all who accepted the free food. "No one," thundered the Communist Neues Deutschland, "who falls into the trap of the warmongers in West Berlin can later say, when they get him into trouble, that he did not know it." They said that the food was poisoned, that a lot of it was horse meat intended for dogs. They forged copies...
Tycoon MacArd's approach to the gap s that of a plain, blunt millionaire. Throw money over from the U.S. side, he argues, and new-type Indian leaders will emerge to invest it. But his idealistic son David thinks otherwise. Money, he believes, is not enough. India may be near to death hysically, but it is vibrant with religious vitality. The would-be missionary cannot convert Indians from behind a desk in Wall Street. He must live in their land and carry his faith to them. To his father's horror, David does just that...
...somebody who thinks it is cricket. The villain of the novel, Sir Matthew Sprott, prosecutor for the Crown, can be best described as a go-getting U.S. district attorney with a knighthood. Wortley's police chief is another odd case of hands across the sea, one of those blunt Britons of the old Prohibition gang-war days. As for Wortley's newspapermen, nothing like them has been seen in the North Country since The Front Page came to the local flickers...
...Bridges at Toko-ri, by James A. Michener. A short, sometimes blunt novel about a carrier pilot who found out why he was fighting in Korea (TIME, July...