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From all sides he had heard manufacturers report failures "for no apparent reason" in the process of inactivating the virus, i.e., making a safe vaccine. A manufacturing rival of Cutter said with commendable candor: "There is absolutely nothing to indicate that Cutter testing was not adequate. If that's so, then what happened to them could have happened...
...WAAC (later the WAC) fought to make a place for itself, how it verged on humiliating failure and how success finally came, is told with bold candor and fine humor in the Army's official history of the corps...
...full sense of right and honor he has always displayed," wrote Case. "The President of the United States has a right and obligation to wage peace as well as to wage war . . . We now support the President's efforts . . . We know he will carry them forward with candor and without the sacrifice of this nation's most solemn obligations...
...conquered the ugly sides of her own character. She became kinder to others, frank with herself. It was a matter of pride with her not to give up alcohol entirely but to learn to control it. This war with her own weakness is described by her daughter with a candor that never sacrifices dignity. When Laurette Taylor shows the dimensions of her victory on the opening night of The Glass Menagerie, many a reader will want to applaud. When her death comes nearly two years later, it seems not so much a tragedy as a curtain to triumph...
...next to the last day of the conference Chou, in simple, unadorned language, delivered a speech that was a masterpiece of diplomatic dexterity. Skillfully, he conveyed the impression of a man of candor with nothing to conceal, a man of principle who was not apologizing for his convictions but ready to admit other views were possible. If some delegates were wary of the term "peaceful coexistence" as a Communist phrase, "we can then change the term," said Chou, suggesting the U.N. charter phrase "live together in peace." China was opposed to "formation of ever more antagonistic military alliances...