Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...article entitled "The Duke's Heaven," in which I figure quite prominently. ... I would like to correct one great error. . . . The idea of turning Del Monte into a postgraduate school for naval officers originated entirely with the naval authorities and the matter came to me without any direct or indirect promotion. Incidentally, it is not a "Little Annapolis." Del Monte was selected only after the most careful survey of innumerable sites in various parts of the country...
...portrait painter. Peale, who became a heavy drinker, was ill most of his sober hours, and Author Born thinks that this may have helped him as a painter. Sickness, he reasons, "may become a constructive element in so far as it forces the artist to be more direct, more concise and more economical in his style...
...paring expenditures, Politician Truman gave the Republican Congress scant credit. Congress, he said, had managed to trim his budget by $1.5 billion, but the actual saving was only $528 million (appropriations for Turkey and Greece, for flood control and other emergencies had cut it down). That was a direct political poke at Republican claims of having saved $3 to $7 billion...
Coach Dick Harlow and his battery of assistant including Herb Kopp, Hank Margarita, and Henry Jacunski are expected in Cambridge this weekend to direct the double workouts prior to the opening game with Western Maryland, September...
Questions & Cross Reference. In Hollywood, 50-year-old Pastor Evans uses the same earnest, blunt sincerity that took him through successful pastorates at Wilmington, Calif., Pomona, Calif, and Pittsburgh. A forceful, straight-from-the-shoulder pulpit speaker, he still likes to pose direct questions to his congregations. Sample sermon title: "Honestly Now, Shall I Drink?" On an average Sunday, some 4,000 Hollywoodians turn out to hear what he will answer to such questions. After preaching three services each Sunday, Dr. Evans usually makes at least three other full-fledged addresses during the week. Explains one Evans admirer: "He doesn...