Word: matter-of-fact
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...matter-of-fact fashion, Winston Churchill last week told the House of Commons as much as he thought it should know about Britain's first atomic explosion, set off Oct. 3 off the Monte Bello Islands north of Australia. The bomb (he called it that for the first time) was detonated inside a warship - the 1,450-ton frigate, H.M.S. Plym-in order "to investigate the effect of an atomic explosion in a harbor...
...Prime Minister Daniel Malan's "unjust laws" (racial segregation) by i) filling the jails to overflowing, 2) catching the eye of the U.N. The African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress recruited 10,000 "volunteers" ready to go to jail when called. They were quite matter-of-fact about it. "I told my boss that I'm scheduled for arrest next week," explained one Negro volunteer. "My cousin will hold my job for me, and when I leave prison...
...talking about the bloody, matter-of-fact, half-underground rural war that has raged for the past three years between Colombia's Liberals and Conservatives. The most cautious estimates of the men, women & children killed now run to 15,000; other estimates go as high as 20,000 or even...
...Dear Mother," wrote young Jim in a matter-of-fact, confident and impersonal style that came naturally to the professional son of a professional soldier: "This is a letter to an Army wife. I don't want tears spilled on it! . . . Early in March, I leave for Korea. I will fly a B-26 in combat. I am the pilot. I will have a bombardier in the nose, a navigator beside me and a gunner in the rear. We will fly at night. I carry bombs and machine guns, and I will know how to use them...
...with a neutral color. After that he holds a brush above it and lets some house paint drip. Finally, he sprinkles the whole affair with gold or silver powder. The result: a series of Jackson Pollock-like abstractions, about as modern as modern can be. Renny's matter-of-fact name for them: "drip paintings...