Word: bluntest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bluntest words to the medicos came from Dr. Herbert Ratner, head of the Student Health Service at Loyola University School of Medicine. Dr. Ratner, a Jew converted to Roman Catholicism nine years ago, accused modern medical schools of sinking to a "veterinarian level by studying man as if he were a horse instead of a human being with a spirit . . . We see nature as violated, when modern man as the result of medical propaganda goes through life fearing death [and] ends up as a vitamin-taking, antacid-consuming, barbiturate-sedated, aspirin-alleviated, weed-habituated, benzedrine-stimulated, psychosomatically-diseased, surgically-despoiled...
Improvident Family. Even if Cripps persuades the trades unions to accept a wage freeze, he must take Britons over still harder jumps. The bluntest warning of their probable nature came, not from any government leader, but from the London Economist. "Britain has been living like an improvident family," it wrote, "which, failing to make both ends meet, first spends the accumulated capital of the past, then borrows from friends . . . and when their loans are exhausted, begins to pawn the furniture. . . . When a family faces bankruptcy, either it goes under to a life of perpetual makeshift and pauperism, or it restores...
Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson, speaking at Wesleyan University's commencement exercises this week, made the bluntest public statement on U.S.-Soviet relations yet made by a U.S. official. Acheson is due to retire to private law practice June 30; his speech was his valedictory. Excerpts...
...This time the telling was done, not by unions or other outsiders, but by industry's own National Planning Association's business committee. On it sits such industrial brass as Macy's Beardsley Ruml and General Electric's C. E. Wilson. Said N.P.A. in the bluntest warning business has yet received about its price policies: regardless of the reasons for the dangerous price situation, the responsibility for correcting it was "squarely up to businessmen. Other economic groups must cooperate. But it is to the risk-takers of our system that the public logically looks for risk...
Mayors from all over the country righteously denounced the LaGuardia attitude. Across the country (where the curfew was being observed without much fuss), editorial writers and cartoonists wound up and chucked their bluntest barbs at New York City's mayor...