Word: forthright
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...over Russia at this moment probably helps the Socialists stay in office. Britain accepts the necessity of preparing for war, but so dreads the prospect that she is determined that no action of hers shall in any way provoke war. People sense that Churchill, with his martial spirit and forthright ways, might somehow hasten a war. Churchill, sensing this mood, is careful in the House not to sound more warlike than the Socialists. His recent attack on the armament program flopped because of this attitude. He obviously thought that a 15-day call-up of reserves was inadequate but refused...
Fear & Courage. A good deal of such anti-MacArthurism sprang from understandable fear that forthright action against Communist China might provoke a third World War and send Russian divisions marching across Europe. Only a few voices in the British press were ready to say that this fear, however understandable, had inspired an unfair judgment...
That just about wound up the show, except for a few forthright and patriotic remarks from J. Edgar Hoover. The Kefauver committee had spent eleven months on the trail of the U.S. underworld, and left behind three sheriffs fired, at least a dozen police officials demoted or indicted, scores of damaged reputations. Its methods had created misgivings, as all congressional investigations do: in effect, trying witnesses who are not formally charged with any crime, using loose rules of evidence and few of the protective procedures of a judicial body. And it had raised a new problem: the propriety of doing...
...Kefauver committee's most impressive achievement was its forthright stand against the shoulder-shrugging theory that big crime is an inevitable part of U.S. life. It left many a citizen asking himself: If dozens of hoodlums and sleazy politicians could be hauled into the full view of millions to sing their sorry songs, why couldn't prosecutors have sent them off to the jails where so many of them obviously belong...
...seems commonplace, passionless, unbreathed upon. King Lear contains half a dozen roles stamped with Shakespeare's maturest genius. But the production is a tangle of acting styles-an Edmund sinuous as an Oriental dancer, a Goneril straight out of melodrama; perhaps only Martin Gabel's blunt, forthright Kent keeps its outline. Round the play's great lonely poetic peaks roar the cold winds of human evil and malign fate, the bleak message that...