Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...especially take to him, but they appreciated his cold competence. They also appreciated the fact that he appeared to stand above ordinary Washington politicking. If he was ever devious, it was a deviousness too subtle for the average human eye. On the record, his methods were straight and direct. He sometimes got impatient at congressional questioning, but managed pretty well to cover it up; only occasionally did his voice become edgy and curt. Once, when he was Assistant Secretary, he spent a whole day under the grueling, stubborn fire of one Senator and never cracked-although when he got back...
...plumbing shop in Watertown to repair a dangerously leaking faucet in Somerville. THIS MAN WAS PREVENTED FROM GETTING TO HIS PLACE OF WORK BY A ROWDY BAND OF STUDENTS FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY WHO BLOCKED MT. AUBURN STREET FOR CLOSE TO AN HOUR. Such action by the students is in direct violation of the 1st, 5th, 7th and 13th amendments to THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. The consequences of their actions are grave. The faucet which James Mulhern was to repair became rapidly worse during the period of student pranks and caused the basement of a two-family house to be FLOODED...
Radcliffe's Chorale Society and the Brown Glee Club will present a joint free concert tonight at 8:15 p.m. in Paine Hall. G. Wallace Woodworth '24 and Edward B. Greene will direct...
...report of the University of Washington Faculty Committee says: "The manner of the respondent Gundlach in answering questions put to him on cross-examination and by members of the committee was frequently evasive and not responsive . . . [Asked] the direct question: 'Are you a member of the Communist Party?' Gundlach replied: 'No one can prove that I am and I cannot prove that I am not' . . . We [the committee] feel that he has been evasive on many matters...
Pinball is rapidly breaking down into a direct war between distributor and student. A good pinball artist, whom the inhabitants of the pinball-and-cheeseburger emporiums like to call a "fifty-mission-man," frequently can accumulate free games all afternoon on one nickel; the distributors are constantly making the machines more difficult...