Word: candid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your candid and informative Aug. 20 sketch of Duke Ellington is heartening to many talented and aspiring Americans...
...reluctant to delegate authority. "Show me ten men I can trust," he replied, "and I will delegate authority." Recently a visiting diplomat, who had been doing a lot of business with him, remarked: "Sometimes I think I hardly know you, despite all our talks." Nasser's answer was candid: "Nobody does. I'm too suspicious...
...York, the Times took the tally on the presidential ballot off the screen and rushed it to the composing room for its table of how the states voted. For the word reporters, TV's advantage put a new premium on cultivating sources, getting the kind of candid not-for-attribution quotes that politicians hesitate to share with the voters on TV, chasing politicians where the cameras still cannot go; e.g., whenever Harriman nipped up the back stairs from his suite to Harry Truman's, he was trailed by half a dozen gasping newsmen...
...only assume that 1) the doctors had less than the necessary competence, 2) the report was not candid, or 3) the report was politically inspired doubletalk...
...Leitz optical works (Leica cameras) and son of the founder; in Wetzlar, Germany. The Leitzes first introduced the Swiss watch industry's mass production technique to microscopy, later (1924) added the Leica as a sideline. But by 1930 the tail was wagging the dog, and miniature cameras and candid photography became a worldwide craze...