Word: bluntly
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...Halleck a tough and ruthless performer, who has been often battered but never beaten in 35 years of office-holding. Old hands in the House, where he is a twelve-termer and twelve-year veteran as G.O.P. No. 2 man, rank him as "an Indiana politician with brains," a blunt, hard-driving scrapper...
Charles H. Percy, already making his young man's mark at Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. (cameras, optical equipment), went on duty in the Navy's purchasing offices, found that the torpedo sight his company was mass-producing for the Navy was useless. His blunt honesty in forcing fast cancellation of the contract so awed company officers that they later made him its president...
...ranking Agriculture Department officer last week, "has been that he talks as if he were the master of the problem, when actually he has been the slave of it." But whatever marks Benson deserves for his six-year effort, it is inescapably obvious that he is correct in his blunt demands for a new farm program to replace the depression-vintage, price-support apparatus, which operates like the unstoppable sorcerer's apprentice's broom-to make worse the problem it was designed to cure...
...turning Indian and making scads of money at the expense of Nepal. To protect himself and his elite colleagues, Tenzing set up a Solo Khumbu branch of the Nepal Climbers' Association, a union of Sherpas he heads. In retaliation, the Nepalese Sherpas started a rival union, put a blunt demand before the Nepal government that it outlaw all such foreigners as Tenzing from plying their trade in the country. But the last word would probably come from expedition leaders themselves. Said Australia's Peter Byrne, who has just arrived in Katmandu with eight Darjeeling Sherpas to help...
...serious vein, there is the calm, careworn father, his hand in groceries, his mind with God. There is the blunt, slangy, kindly matron who wants to marry everyone off; the professional matchmaker, with his human goldbricks and his spiel; the absurdly natty, paunchy, rich upstart. As they cluck, strut, brag, fib, fence, they have no great personal identity; they spill over indeed into caricature. But they boast a sort of tribal flesh; their pretenses and deprecations and denials are bequests from a world of hard competition to a world...