Word: forthrightly
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...weeks later the CRIMSON published its Memorial Issue to the late President Eliot, and two days after that President Lowell celebrated his 70th birthday. Vigorous and forthright, he published his report on athletics in the University with his belief that everyone in the College should participate to the maximum of his capacity. "Athletics for All" was the matte...
Henry Wallace: "The first good chance I get, I will land on him with both feet. I share the view that Henry Wallace is a selfish and not too forthright individual...
...Deal days, a forthright British industrialist was introduced to a trustbusting U.S. Government lawyer. Said the Briton: "I've read your books and I know you to be an intelligent man. I know that you know that these antitrust suits of yours don't really change anything. Why do you bring them?" Said the American: "I know they don't change anything. But what you don't understand is that these suits are like medieval miracle plays-designed to educate the people, to tell them how capitalism really works...
...Narayan, the founder and leader of India's Socialist Party. A fascinating man about whom the rest of the world knows little. Narayan in his youth was a violent Marxist and anti-British revolutionary, and in his middle age is a man of peace and religion and a forthright antiCommunist. It was he who made the biggest news last week...
...most effective way for a French Premier to stay in office is to avoid hard decisions and, if possible, even forthright expressions of opinion. Under Henri Queuille, the colorless compromiser, this technique made a name for itself: L'im-mobilisme. Queuille hung on as Premier for 388 days-a record for postwar France. Last week France's postwar Premier, Joseph Laniel, was hot on Queuille's trail. By an astute and unflagging practice of immobilisme, plus luck, Laniel passed the second-best (290-day) mark, set by Antoine Pinay, his arch rival in the Independent Party...