Word: candor
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...Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest." > Whether it also "goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor" to the point of "patent offensiveness...
...Beaverbrook, practical, plain-spoken Thomson was a new and alarming enigma in the publishing world. With disarming candor, Thomson always admitted that he was in the newspaper business only for profit. "I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money," he once announced. "As for editorial content," said the Canadian-born publisher who at 71 owns 128 newspapers and 80 magazines, "that's the stuff you separate the ads with...
...second condition, public willingness to listen, also seems a good possibility. For several weeks the nation's press has heavily criticized the administration for its lack of candor and sincerity in handling foreign policy crises. It is now common knowledge that, as late as last spring, the President was uninterested in negotiations. And, last week's fighting in the Central Highlands proved that the policy of air strikes, North and South, has failed in its purpose of creating a conciliatory attitude in Hanoi...
Though foreigners deplore the clinical candor of White House bulletins on Ike and L.B.J., the Chief Executive's health is no longer his private business. Nor should it be, for since World War II the U.S. President's role in world affairs, and his ability to discharge it, have become matters of global concern. With television and jet planes to thrust him into homes and home towns the world over, the President is also much closer to the people than ever before. This was recognized by Jim Hagerty, Eisenhower's press secretary, who with Dr. Paul Dudley...
...exactly what happened to Noble Victory: twice in the three-heat race, he broke stride; in the third heat, the best he could do was third. "He seemed like he was anchored," said Dancer disgustedly. "He just couldn't handle the going." Armbro Flight won one heat, Egyptian Candor won another, and an outsider named Short Stop won the third. The Hambletonian goes to the first horse that wins two heats. So the race went into overtime-a trot-off among the three heat winners. Before the final, Cameron offered Dancer the seat in Egyptian Candor's sulky...