Word: forthright
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...teams which they have traditionally scheduled. Mr. Bingham can no longer hide behind the artifice of hiring and firing of coaches every couple of years. He is the athletic director, and with him lies the responsibility of organizing an athletic program which is workable, and of making a forthright statement to the student body and alumni as to just what his policies are and will be in the future...
Twice in his life, quiet, forthright Army Secretary Gordon Gray just missed an academic career. As top scholar in his class ('30) at the University of North Carolina, he planned to be a history teacher, reluctantly postponed it when his father, Tobacco Tycoon Bowman Gray of the R. J. Reynolds Co. (Camels) persuaded him to tackle Yale Law School first...
...Manhattan's Commodore Hotel last week, the chief embarrassing concern of the annual N.C.A.A. convention was the trial of the "sinful seven" - Virginia, Maryland, V.M.I., V.P.I., The Citadel, Boston College and Villanova. Six of the defendants, led by Virginia's forthright ex-Governor Colgate Darden Jr. (now president of the University of Virginia), called the Sanity Code hypocritical and defied the N.C.A.A. to expel them. The Citadel had already sent in its resignation because it refused "to lie to stay in the association." At week's end, when representatives of 240 colleges were called upon to expel...
...Bestseller. Concentrating on 570 of the most common words, Lorge found that the simplest ones usually have the largest number of meanings. A word like open, for instance, can mean uncovered (open boat), not closed (open door), unrestricted (open to use), forthright (open in manner), or not frozen (open soil). Even little by has 41 meanings...
...businessmen did a forthright, statesmanlike job in defining the true test of how big is too big. The test, as General Electric's President Charles E. Wilson told a House committee investigating monopoly, was whether bigness gave the consumer more for his money. "When any concern fails to give the consumer a satisfactory product at a fair price," said Wilson, "it will lose the customer ... its size, and ultimately its very existence...