Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London last week, the British government made public the report of a four-man commission appointed to study the Guiana crisis. Its conclusion: "Conditions for sound constitutional advance do not exist in British Guiana today." The report was harshly candid (said the Manchester Guardian: "To read it is like walking into a lamppost in the fog"), and argued that the colony's dominant political organization, the Red-ridden People's Progressive Party, was bent on destroying the constitution after first using its privileges to win unlimited one-party rule. For their activities protesting London's steps against...
...Americans-is that they really are better than us Europeans. I don't say more intelligent. Neither would I say that the Americans are more cultured, capable, refined or courageous. I only say that they are better intentioned, ready to sacrifice the individual for the common good, more candid, more trustful of others and more ready than we are to see the good rather than the bad side of things...
Fields of Jute. Mohammed Ali was candid. The 1947 partition which created the Moslem state of Pakistan left it an agricultural country. It had vast fields of jute but not a single mill to convert it to burlap. To balance the economy, Pakistan needed industries. Some, the government has built itself. But "the best method of industrialization is through the investment of private venture capital," said Ali. Voicing the creed of a convinced free enterpriser, he declared: "It was the adventurous risk capital of the 19th century that built the fortress of industrial strength the U.S. enjoys today...
Reminiscing about a meeting with Sinclair Lewis in London in 1922, Biographer Charles Breasted, writing in the Saturday Review, recalled asking the late author whether Main Street, the literary rage of that day, was autobiographical. Lewis'candid admission: it was. Breasted wanted to know whether the novel's heroine, Carol Kennicott, was a self-portrait. Startled at one of the few correct guesses about Carol's identity, Lewis replied with what could well have served as his own gloomy epitaph: "Yes, Carol...
...century through World War I. Author Hermann Hagedorn, a former Harvard English instructor who has written or edited six previous books on T.R. (The Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt, Roosevelt in the Bad Lands), knew and loved the family well. His camera is sometimes less than candid, but even when freckles and awkward angles are airbrushed out, his snapshots are warm, intimate closeups that usually show what the outsider wants...