Word: forthright
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...Protestant schoolteacher in suburban Detroit, I view with alarm the rapidity being used by the Roman Catholic hierarchy in their forthright demands for federal aid to parochial schools. John F. Kennedy has promised that he will uphold the separation of church and state. With such men as Francis Cardinal Spellman picking away at him after less than a week in office, what will happen in the next four years...
...features and high, yet ever controlled voice communicate the message in a direct, compelling fashion that even those in complete disagreement must respect. You won't find a 300-voice choir or mass conversions at his lectures in Agassiz this week, but you will encounter an evangelism that is forthright and intellectually honest, rare attractions in the circus world of American evangelism...
...public interest has not been seriously harmed by strikes in steel, or by steel collective bargaining agreements, despite common public opinion to the contrary." So said Harvard Professor E. Robert Livernash last week in a forthright, polemical, 317-page study of collective bargaining in the steel industry and its impact on the U.S. economy...
...year 1960, a round $1 billion has been poured into new churches, accounting for 13.2% of all public buildings put up in the U.S. The church boom has attracted some of the best U.S. architects, and led them to produce buildings that are often adventuresome in structure and forthright in their use of materials. They are buildings that address themselves, with varying degrees of success, to growing community demands and to changing liturgical customs...
...adversary is a monster of plumbless evil who calls himself Odysseus-and the author does not fail to borrow a plot twist from Homer. The counter and under-the-counter intelligence agents of several countries haven't a clue about who Odysseus really is. Storyteller Maclnnes casts some forthright foreshadows, but it takes Strang and the reader most of the book to uncover the blackguard, just in time to save the President of Yugoslavia and a beautiful girl photographer. Only one thing bothers the reader. Early in the book, the author represents her virile hero as musing in these...