Word: forthrightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Martin has any criticism of the U.S. response, it is that Washington should have been even more forthright in articulating its aims and supporting General Elias Wessin y Wessin, who helped fight the Castroites to a standstill. "Once we had decided we were in the republic to stop Communism," he writes, "we should have stopped pretending neutrality...
With that forthright declaration of independence, North Korea's Communist Party last week followed the lead of its brother parties in Rumania and Japan, and announced that it was going its own ideological way. In an editorial appearing in Rodong Shinmoon, the country's official Communist newspaper, the party claimed that it-and not Peking or Moscow-was the best judge of how Communist doctrine should be applied to North Korea's problems. "When one loses the faculty of thinking and judging for himself," the editorial said, "he cannot distinguish right from wrong. Such people commit revisionism...
...Journalism. Later he joins a reform party to put Chief Nanga and his grafters out of office. It ends in debacle. Odili is beaten nearly to death by the chiefs forthright constituents, and it is back to the village for him. But all is well. A military coup deposes Nanga's gang, and, with a more or less good conscience, the convalescent Odili is able to pay the "bride price" for the now redundant "parlor wife." He does it from party funds...
...January, both the agency and the pharmaceutical industry have been rocked by swift and decisive actions designed to give the public greater protection against possibly dangerous drugs. Last week Dr. Goddard was not only on the go with a top-level personnel shake-up but also won a forthright declaration of the President's support...
...AAUP is not noted for its temerity. But if any measure of respectability is to be returned to the faculty at St. John's; if any lasting and meaningful reforms are to be enacted, they will have to be forthright in their analysis and explicit in their proposals. We hope they...