Word: forthright
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...year 1960, a round $1 billion has been poured into new churches, accounting for 13.2% of all public buildings put up in the U.S. The church boom has attracted some of the best U.S. architects, and led them to produce buildings that are often adventuresome in structure and forthright in their use of materials. They are buildings that address themselves, with varying degrees of success, to growing community demands and to changing liturgical customs...
...adversary is a monster of plumbless evil who calls himself Odysseus-and the author does not fail to borrow a plot twist from Homer. The counter and under-the-counter intelligence agents of several countries haven't a clue about who Odysseus really is. Storyteller Maclnnes casts some forthright foreshadows, but it takes Strang and the reader most of the book to uncover the blackguard, just in time to save the President of Yugoslavia and a beautiful girl photographer. Only one thing bothers the reader. Early in the book, the author represents her virile hero as musing in these...
...week by the President's Science Advisory Committee is encouraging both as a clear statement of the situation and as an indication that difficulties of government allocations are being recognized and acted upon. As a confrontation of the problems of basic research and education in science, the statement is forthright and surprisingly comprehensible...
...came to issues, Tom O'Connor was pretty sharp. He never professed to offer specific proposals, but he impressed many as at least having the right ideas. There was never any doubt where he stood on the standard issues, and he reiterated his stands time and again in forthright language. The changeover from a mayor interested in civic problems to the Senate candidate who must talk on national and international issues presented some difficulties. Because of this problem and also because of O'Connor's excellent record as mayor of the state's third largest city, many politicians and voters...
...that he is still their candidate--has embraced is not the easiest and most comfortable for the American people to adopt. He has embraced it, and the liberals have embraced it, in the belief that it is a necessary one for the sake of survival. Therefore, Kennedy is not forthright when he emphasizes only the benefits of his program and not the sacrifices that self-indulgent American consumers must out of decency and necessity make...