Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With one blunt issue-drawing comment Politician Truman turned a local Missouri scrap into a national political row in the faltering Democratic party (see Political Notes). Said Harry Truman of Congressman Slaughter: If he's right, I'm wrong...
London's war-scarred Tate Gallery brimmed last week with the sweet & sour cream of U.S. art: 240 paintings by everyone from the razor-sharp 18th Century Portraitist John Singleton Copley to his blunt-edged fellow Bostonian, bitter, 31-year-old ex-G.I. Jack Levine...
Neither is subtle, complex or daring. Whitney is a well-read man who likes to lace his speeches with literary allusions. Johnston (nobody calls him Al) is a plain, blunt man who almost never makes a speech, puts on a front of gruff irascibility...
Mikkola predicts that 60 points ought to be enough to win, which sent me scampering to the seclusion of Widener to figure out Harvard's chances on my fingers. To be blunt, their chances look quite good. Pete Harwood, Bob Clark, and Bill Jackson have been consistent winners ever since the season got under way and as yet they show no signs of weakening...
People Get Mad. His first cartoon for the P-D was an attack on wooden railroad coaches (it showed a coffin on rails). He has been wielding a blunt instrument ever since. As a result, he says: "An awful lot of people are goddam mad at me." In 1940 Fitz, his managing editor and the chief editorial writer were arrested in St. Louis because their savage pictorial attacks on civic lawlessness and injustice evoked the wrath of a judge...