Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very much more pleasant affair." Ike admitted candidly that his program had not been entirely successful; there had been some disappointments. "I would be just guilty of misrepresentation if I just said all the world is rosy, and all the roses are gilded. But if we [have] had a straightforward, across-the-board progress that shows that men have stood up to be counted and had the courage to go ahead in doing what they think is right, then I think we have got a pretty good record ... I think by the time . . . Congress goes out, we are going...
...York offers more incentive to witnesses than most municipalities: "Former members of the Communist Party who have severed their connections in good faith have nothing to fear if they tell the truth." Janson continues. "A number of persons who were called in for questioning and gave straightforward answers about past membership are now teaching in our school system." Teachers in this category are believed to number...
...outstretched in supplication for peace; there is a belly-blow force in the conception of the statue, but the emotion it produces is something like that evoked by the sight of open sores on a crippled, shuffling beggar: pity mixed with revulsion. Song of the Vowels is a more straightforward experiment with form and space; the curving harplike sides of the figure give it expanse and a sense of freedom...
Winthrop men generally recognize and appreciate Ferry's interest in them, and they think of him as a straightforward, frank man who will tell them directly if he thinks the cannot give them a recommendation, but who never gives a bad one. Their attitude toward him is one of warm affection rather than cold respect, and this regard is demonstrated each year when 50 or 60 members of the Winthrop House Alumni Committee return to see him at the Christmas dinner...
Faking Something. In the '403, revolt begins to taste ashy. As Dick sees it, "below rationality and reason . . . neither Brace nor I had anything. Nothing at all.'' Eager to replace nothing with something, Brace marries an earnest, straightforward Roman Catholic boy and embraces his faith. Dick goes into his father's lumber business but increasingly embraces the bottle and "used women, women who at one time had been firmly in the possession of others ... It is like buying a used car ... If you scratch it you need not feel guilty or angry . . ." When Brace finds that...