Word: candor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British were delighted with President Truman. They said that he came well prepared, spoke with candor and force, did not take a back seat to his more experienced confreres...
...probe had been requested by him to straighten out his books, that much of the cash owed the Treasury had already been paid. His explanation for the cash on hand revealed some of the tribulations of running a restaurant chain under OPA ceilings. Said he, with unblushing candor: "It is common knowledge today that many articles for consumption in public eating places as well as at home can only be purchased with cash...
...were not in jail the Viceroy engaged in earnest discussions. But most of the time he listened. With the jailed political prisoners he carried on a correspondence marked by understanding and humanity. Indians accustomed to word-jugglery and nebulous formulas noted with surprise his crisp, matter-of-fact candor. He impressed them as a disciplined, cultured administrator sympathetic to Indian aspirations, less concerned with his office than with Indian good will. To Gandhi (then in jail) he wrote: "I am in entire accord with that aim [Indian self-government] and only seek the best means to implement it without delivering...
...month ago, in an order to all U.S. attorneys, Attorney General Francis Biddle directed: "... Since the 'superseniority' interpretation is not free from doubt under the Act, the Department will expect to present the issue to the courts [when representing job-hunting veterans] with full candor...
...facts for his own benefit and the instruction of the vast audience won by his tales of microbe-hunting, hunger-fighting heroes of the test tube. Last week he published his findings, in a mixture of laboratory slang, movie-travelogue lyricism and man-to-man locker-room candor, in The Male Hormone (Harcourt Brace...