Word: bluntly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best of the books about World War II was Australian Chester Wilmot's The Struggle for Europe. Its blunt criticism of U.S. foreign and military policy aroused some resentment, but there was mostly praise for its skillful, informed exposition of the fighting side of the war. Commander Edward Beach, U.S.N., wrote the most exciting of the action books in Submarine!, which showed for the first time what submerged combat was really like. The services were still pumping out solid tomes that celebrated and detailed their contributions. Among the few U.S. war leaders who had not yet published their memoirs...
...months as an Army topographer in the Pacific that showed him what he was looking for. Today, he builds his strange and wonderful landscapes by laying on row after row of thin, radiating lines in red, yellow and brown paint with the blunt edge of a knife. He works until the ridges seem to catch and reflect the light, like fine embroidery done in metallic thread, and then he is satisfied...
...giant at 150 pounds, does all the punting; and just to make things tough for the press-box, a third brother, 132-pound Bob, will play Mueller's half-back Saturday. Spell Utz with a capital "G". To blunt charges of nepotism, the coach will start big Bob Winkler at full-back, bad ankle...
Last weeK Democratic Vice Presidential candidate John Sparkman campaigned through Iowa, talking mostly about prosperity. While Iowa's prosperity will help the Democratic cause with the purse-minded farmers, its effect is at least partially offset by some blunt economic facts: the farmers' taxes and living costs have been going up, while the trend of prices for their farm products has been down. Farm policy -Republican v. Democrat promises to farmers-has not developed as a burning 1952 issue in Iowa. Other issues, e.g., Government corruption and the Korean war, are hotter...
...them. This fall, the Office sent each landlady a note reminding them that discriminators were not welcome on the housing lists, but colored students kept returning empty-handed. Acting on its threat the Office has erased landladies who admit purposely drawing a color line from its listings. But such blunt cases are rare. For every bare-faced discriminator, there are ten who protest that "they wouldn't mind a Negro, but their tenants would...