Word: candor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world council or international union after the war"; overwhelming majorities are committed to maintenance of the peace by international waging of war and a Permanent International Police Force. And Harvard is not alone in its espousal of collective security. The college undergraduate has perceived his mistake, and, with a candor worthy of imitation by the United States Senate, freely confessed his error...
...past eight weeks San Francisco has been lapping up a double-scoop, 15-act vaudeville show called Highlights of 1943. Its title is much the most up-to-date thing about it. Produced by Hollywood's fabulous cinemaestro, Sid Grauman, it offers, with crafty candor, the kind of variety show that was pulling them when Grauman left San Francisco 27 years ago. Headlined by Songstress Gertrude Niesen singing a batch of old songs, Highlights includes a trained-poodle act, harmonica players, highflying female aerialists, an impersonator, an oldtime clown, a Gay Nineties troupe, a ping-pong exhibition...
...Cahal's letter on British candor (TIME, Dec. 7) and especially TIME's editorial comment thereon seem to reveal confused thinking on that most frequent source of American confusion, India. Mr. Cahal asks where do Mr. Churchill's characteristically candid words (on the "liquidation" of the British Empire) leave India, and TIME, quoting the so-called "Churchill clause" in the Atlantic Charter, opines "Mr. Churchill evidently considers India 'an existing obligation...
...Navy could now look upon Pearl Harbor with brutal candor, because it could view some of its aftermath with satisfaction...
...guess I'm still an Anglophile but, like millions of others, my conscience cries out at the British lack of candor...