Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Candid Craft. The troop-carrying glider is a candid sort of aircraft, no secrets, nothing concealed. Canvas fabric covers the fuselage; in flight it vibrates like a drumhead. The whole craft is springy and alive as a new buggy. Pilot and copilot sit up in the blunt, transparent nose, a single row of instrument dials in front of them. The noise of rushing air is astonishing...
...Randall Pierson's autobiography covers the years from 1902, when Father died, to the present. Roughly Speaking is as uneven as the years it spans. The 332 pages of neat, small print, marred by an affected breeziness and by curiously false conversational passages, nevertheless make up a lively, candid, sometimes exasperatingly interesting book. Its record is bitter, if the facts of the family's struggle alone are considered. But Mrs. Pierson is so persistently cheerful in keeping the record that she seems optimistic by will power alone. Sometimes, like sunlight filtering through the shutters of a darkened room...
...money well spent. Why Japan Was Strong is a candid, simple record of traveling light through a country that most American visitors see expensively, if at all. Author Patric has only one regret. It would be so much easier to hate everything Japanese if he had not made the journey...
...tell how the Manassa Mauler once sent her guests home in an ambulance, once suggested an illegal operation to her, once tossed her into a closet, once waved a gun at her (she said she told him to "Take one good shot and end my misery"). When a candid photo of her with Benny and his sister was shown in court and Benny was asked to point out which were his arms, Benny candidly couldn't. When subpoena-shy Yvette Colbert went west, Hannah's countersuit went west too. Both sides admitted there was nothing more to tell...
...letters came from cranks; almost none were of the "You dirty Bolshevik" variety. Candid and unselfconscious, the best of the missives are good, not only for what they show of U.S. feelings toward Russia, but for their revelation of every day U.S. life. Excerpts...