Word: forthright
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...week by the President's Science Advisory Committee is encouraging both as a clear statement of the situation and as an indication that difficulties of government allocations are being recognized and acted upon. As a confrontation of the problems of basic research and education in science, the statement is forthright and surprisingly comprehensible...
...came to issues, Tom O'Connor was pretty sharp. He never professed to offer specific proposals, but he impressed many as at least having the right ideas. There was never any doubt where he stood on the standard issues, and he reiterated his stands time and again in forthright language. The changeover from a mayor interested in civic problems to the Senate candidate who must talk on national and international issues presented some difficulties. Because of this problem and also because of O'Connor's excellent record as mayor of the state's third largest city, many politicians and voters...
...that he is still their candidate--has embraced is not the easiest and most comfortable for the American people to adopt. He has embraced it, and the liberals have embraced it, in the belief that it is a necessary one for the sake of survival. Therefore, Kennedy is not forthright when he emphasizes only the benefits of his program and not the sacrifices that self-indulgent American consumers must out of decency and necessity make...
...Douglas had high words of praise for Senators Kennedy and Johnson. She called Kennedy "explicit and forthright on matters of disarmament and nuclear testing." Calling the issue of survival the most important this fall, Mrs. Douglas based her praise for the Massachusetts senator on the feeling that he is better able to cope with the great responsibility of preventing nuclear...
Jack Kennedy's forthright statements of his views on church-state relationships have been aimed at Protestants who are wary about Vatican control over a Roman Catholic President of the U.S. But they have had an important effect on U.S. Catholicism as well. Many a Catholic clergyman and layman has been moved to think through his own views, with the result that the 1960 campaign has brought the clearest definition of American Catholic church-state beliefs in the history of the U.S. Catholic Church...