Word: bluntly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A.M.A. delegates heard blunt words from an outspoken Navy surgeon recently returned from Korea. There, said Captain Eugene R. Hering, "Our woeful lack of military surgeons has again been demonstrated . . . Our greatest weakness [is] the lack of medical officers who are psychologically prepared, physically toughened, professionally capable and sufficiently aware of the military aspect of any given campaign...
...apostles of the "society-centered" and "child-centered" school. In his famed social science textbooks (more than 2,000,000 copies), Harold Rugg slashed away subject barriers, tried to revolutionize social science teaching in the schools by combining history, geography, civics, economics into a "total portrait." His blunt, New-Dealing criticisms of U.S. history, past & present, raised storms of protest in the '30s and early '40s, made Author Rugg ("To keep issues out of the school is to keep life out of it") one of the most controversial teachers of his time...
...Uncle Harry" Miles Johnson, Tulane University's rumpled and violent psychology lecturer, took up Pitman's offer, will arrive at the College of Idaho this September. Other "Messrs. Chips" responded with interest, one with a blunt "What's your proposition?" Pitman figures that the board will soon find money enough to make some propositions. Nowadays, he is looking forward to the next Mr. Chips story and more recruits...
Advice to Advertisers "It is very common in our society to dislike advertising." With this blunt observation, Chicago's Social Research, Inc. last week sent its admen subscribers a comprehensive survey of TV commercials which seemed to say that television was making no progress at all in changing the public attitude...
...blunt fact is that the most important post in Mr. Truman's Administration is filled by a man who does not enjoy general or congressional confidence. This ... is a serious matter ... It stems, of course, from Mr. Acheson's public expressions about Alger Hiss, especially his public citation of ... the Bible, which, in the light of Alger Hiss's refusal to come clean, was singularly inappropriate ... At home as well as abroad, he is a political deadweight...