Word: candor
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...Ford talked with a level candor on CBS-TV's 60 Minutes. A strong advocate of equal rights for women, she repeated her beliefs about abortion-the Supreme Court's decision legalizing it, she said, was "a great, great decision." When Correspondent Morley Safer asked her about marijuana, Mrs. Ford said that she assumed her four children had sampled it and that she probably would have tried it herself when she was young: "It's the type of thing that the young people have to experience, like your first beer or your first cigarette...
...first year in office. Not even Ford's opponents can deny that he has performed far better than anyone had reason to expect. The child of Congress has become the political master of the White House. He is no intellectual, he is no innovator, but his candor, diligence and common sense have gained respect for his presidency. Few people crack jokes any more about his inability to chew gum and walk at the same time. Nor do they ask him, as a reporter did last fall, whether he is "intellectually up to the job of being the President...
...Joan escapes Shaw's didactic clutches, and that is why audiences love her. She is an imp of candor and a lioness in courage. She lacks all humor but makes up for it with backslapping bonhomie. Minutes after she has been ushered into the presence of the Dauphin, she is calling him "Charley...
...little to do with semantic quibbles about nonbelligerency. Peace means that Arab governments have to behave toward Israel exactly as they behave toward Italy and France. It involves a vast transformation of Arab attitudes, ideas, slogans, policies and conduct. Is any leader explaining this to the Arabs with the candor that characterizes the way some of us are talking to the Israeli people about the need to give up territories for peace...
...Cuban missile crisis-a potential nuclear confrontation between two superpowers that was ultimately resolved through delicate negotiations without the U.S. firing a single shot or losing more than a single man. J.F.K., unlike Ford, supported by every nation in the affected area and acting with caution and candor, avoided a direct clash, utilized the U.N. and other channels of communication, issued no ultimatum and authorized no acts of punishment or retaliation...