Word: forthrightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What, asked a reporter, did Meany think about the likelihood that Harlem Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr. will become chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee next year? "Terrible," said forthright George Meany. "He has a bad voting and absentee record. He uses his position to stir up racial hatred. It's terrible to think that we will have a man like that as chairman...
...Hollywood's Sunset Strip, the smooth-talking fellows with the gleaming teeth no longer wink and say, "Come up and see my etchings." Last week, as the sun picked up the trine of Jupiter and Uranus, the new line was "Let's compare horoscopes," and many a forthright Virgo walked away enchantedly on the arm of a leering Libra...
...Kennedys have probably filled more picture-magazine space than all other candidates combined. A man of proven courage (his Pulitzer-prizewinning book. Profiles in Courage, was written while he was recovering from a painful, near fatal series of operations for a wartime spine injury), Kennedy has waged a forthright and energetic campaign on most issues, has doubled back only on his 1956 Senate vote against high, rigid farm price supports (the vote that lost him much Midwest support in the 1956 vice-presidential race) to embrace supports in this campaign. By poll and by general agreement of the professionals, Kennedy...