Word: candor
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...there is no truth in that platform plank, there is no candor in it; it has not even got the essence of common everyday honesty and it was never intended to have...
Father Momolo Zamboni vigorously denied all guilt, but produced a very bad effect upon the Court by remarking with candor and simplicity: "We are Anarchical Communists. Anarchical because we do not want any government. Where there is government there is authority, and where there is authority there is not that true liberty which we desire. We are Communists because we wish that everything which exists or which is produced be shared by everybody...
...therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...
...this reason the British Foreign Office has honestly and without hypocrisy proclaimed that control of Egypt is, for the British Empire, a measure of self defense." Five years' residence in Cairo, and conversations with British officials in many Departments prove to me that you credit them with a candor which they are far from claiming themselves. The Suez Canal is a mere pretext, and is so admitted by British officials. Nothing would be easier than to fortify a zone on either side of the canal, instead of garrisoning the whole Nile Valley for two thousand miles. No other Power...
...enforce the law if elected could only be accepted, by Democrats, as the word of an honest man. His reiteration of his disbelief in the present form of Prohibition was neither startling nor offensive to sincere Prohibitionists in the party. They had known his position. They honored his candor. They doubted his power to change...