Word: forthrightness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rapt audience that "I am the first honest man Mr. Khrushchev has ever met," Britain's ripsnorting Field Marshal Lord Montgomery announced that he will undertake a new, one-man peace mission in January. His new quarry: India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Monty's forthright plan of approach: "I am going to talk to him and say to him, '.What is going on out here in Asia? What is it all about...
Macmillan rode to triumph on a wave of British prosperity coupled with a foreign policy calling for forthright dealing with the Soviet Union on H-bomb and other problems...
...lives there between Lafayette and De Kalb still, as she has for 30 years, and from those unlikely surroundings have come some of the best U.S. poetry written during that time. Reaching the heart of her poetry itself is another matter. Her poetry is practical and fresh, delicate and forthright, intensely imaginative and keenly observant. To try to reach it, the Collected Poems are the best road. Her new book, so slender that it can be read in an hour, is a simple, narrow, carefree path that proves in a whimsical way that Poet Moore walks through a verseland entirely...
With their more or less approving students, these prominent professors form a potent group that likes to refer to itself as 'liberal." But some of its more forthright members, such as Professor Sam Beer, openly describe their philosophy as "radical democracy," and the group as a whole might best be called the Respectable Radicals...
Congratulations to Senator Dodd for his forthright expression of what must certainly be the views of the overwhelming majority of thinking Americans...