Word: candor
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...England voters should show they want men of candor--not the coy openness of Carter's "I will never tell a lie" but an intellectual frankness about specific proposals and ideas. This sort of discourse has a way of dispelling the fog of political war; it exposes blithe folksiness for unprincipled ambition, stern patriotism for irresponsible battle-lust...
...Bush is keenly aware of the perils of his new preeminence. "If somebody comes out with something that shows me way out front, I'll be poor-mouthing it," he said in an outburst of candor aboard his chartered jet. "I'll say, This is ridiculous. God, how could you expect that from a little guy like...
...love with her, but so, more or less, were all his friends. It was the thing, to bein love with Misia ... She had tremendous allure in the French meaning of the word-a sense of how to carry herself with style ... she listened attentively and responded with enthusiasm, candor and an independence of judgment startling in one so young. Her speech was salted with irony and peppered with four-letter words, which on her lips somehow escaped vulgarity. She was a rough-and-ready princess...
Everything is coming together when for so long it looked as if every thing would come flying apart. With disarming candor, the local officials who finally managed to bring the Games back to Lake Placid admit that they did not know what they were getting into. The area had world-class skiing slopes, but no support facilities for the Games and no idea of how to go about building them. Says the Rev. Bernard Fell, an ebullient former policeman who is president of the Lake Placid Organizing Committee: "None of us were trained in managing a construction project or picking...
William Proxmire (D-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has proposed the Attorney General appoint a special prosecutor. We urge Benjamin Civiletti to reconsider his earlier rejection of this move. Only a special prosecutor can probe the past conduct and present candor of a Cabinet member without suspicion of political influence. President Carter's campaign literature trumpets his insistence "that everyone in government be held to the highest standards of ethics and accountability, with no exceptions." The Secretary of the Treasury should not be an exception...