Word: candids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prisoner Rule. General Dodd is a candid, friendly man who has admitted openly that he does not understand Communists. A 52-year-old, Indiana-born West Pointer, he is a former deputy chief of staff of James Van Fleet's Eighth Army. After Koje's most violent riot last February, he was sent to the island to take over command from Colonel Maurice Fitzgerald. He found a bad situation. U.S. personnel were reluctant to enter some of the fanatical Communist compounds. The Communists elected their own leaders and councils, ran their enclosures like self-contained Red fortresses, organized...
Four reports are filed on a girl's Non-Resident term-by her counselor, Miss Funnell, her employer, and herself. Employer comments range from effusions of "excellent" to "too candid" and "could improve a spelling...
Behind locked doors for five days last February, President Juan Perón and top advisers met with Argentina's 16 provincial governors. Last week a report of their candid conversations leaked...
With the Communists safely in power, Hungary's bullet-headed top Communist Matyas Rakosi decided the time had come to tell everybody how they got there.Writing in the party organ Social Review, Rakosi is cynically candid. In the free elections of 1945, the Communists polled only 17% of the vote while the democratic Smallholders Party polled 56.5%, a clear majority. But with the help of the occupying Russian army ("Soviet 'interferences' in internal affairs . . . were of great value in strengthening our party"), the Smallholders were persuaded to make concessions...
Needless to say, I would find myself on the opposite side from this hypothetical candid critic of public education. But what I am more concerned with in the year 1952 is to make the hostile critics of the public schools in the United States show their colors...